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<i>Urania's Mirror; or, a view of the Heavens</i> is a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards, first published in November 1824. They had illustrations based on Alexander Jamieson's <i>A Celestial Atlas</i>, but the addition of holes punched in them allowed them to be held up to a light to see a depiction of the constellation's stars. They were engraved by Sidney Hall, and were said to be designed by 'a lady', but have since been identified as the work of the Reverend Richard Rouse Bloxam, an assistant master at Rugby School.<br/><br/> The cover of the box-set showed a depiction of Urania, the muse of astronomy, and came with a book entitled <i>A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy...</i> written as an accompaniment.
Andromeda was the daughter of an Ethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband. Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): 'ruler of men'.<br/><br/> The subject has been popular in art since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic sacred marriage, giving rise to the 'princess and dragon' motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.