My First 2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
Photos of the progress of my first 2000 piece puzzle.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
The box itself is very large and the number of pieces is so much that it fills the box deep enough that a cat would love to use this as their litter box.
It weighs just over three pounds. It's quite heavy. The manufacturer is in Italy.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Celestial Planisphere 2000 Piece Puzzle
Initial sorting and assembly of the border took approximately five hours.
Horizontally it is just over 3 feet long. 38 1/2" x 26 1/4" (97,5 x 66,8 cm)
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Celestial Planisphere 2000 Piece Puzzle - Assembly at 10 hours.
These photos were all taken at about 10 hours into assembly. So far the borders and initial sorting took 5 hours. An additional 2 hours was spent on more sorting, and then 3 hours of assembling the pieces you see on the board on the right.
The number of pieces layed out all the way on the left there (not in tupperware) is about 1000 pieces. I have so far sorted the other 1000 pieces into tuppy bins or the other pieces have already been assembled (borders not pictured here and what is on the board on the right).
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Celestial Planisphere Assembly at 10 hours.
I was pretty much done with what I could do with these sections so I got ready to transfer them downstairs to where the puzzle would be completely assembled.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Celestial Planisphere jigsaw puzzle
In the right bin are pieces of text that belong to the zodiac constellations. (Aquarius, Scorpio, Gemini, etc.) The left bin holds pieces that make up the Prime Meridian (zero). On this map the Prime Meridian runs left to right which would actually be north to south.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Celestial Planisphere puzzle
Southern Hemisphere: Here are pieces that include the text for Phoenix, Hydra, and The Southern Crown.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
My first puzzle over 1500 pieces...
Celestial Planisphere is a 2000 piece puzzle. This is the assembly progress at 10 hours.
So far the borders and initial sorting took 5 hours. An additional 2 hours was spent on more sorting, and then 3 hours of assembling the pieces you see on the board
Here is what it looks like with all of that stuff on the board laid in. I think it is about 400 pieces done maybe? Look at all of that space in between. LOL. I have a long way to go!
Overall I'm really happy with how it is coming along so far. It doesn't look like much because half of the time has been spent sorting, but once all of that gets done it *should* come together pretty darn fast from there.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Progress of my first 2000 pc puzzle at 15 hours of assembly.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Progress of my first 2000 pc puzzle at 15 hours of assembly.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Progress of my first 2000 pc puzzle at 15 hours of assembly. This is a closer picture of the puzzle from the center/middle to the right side.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Assembly - Celestial Planisphere
Progress of my first 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle at 20 hours, 30 minutes.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere - Assembled
Title: Celestial Planisphere , 1680
Artist: de Wit
Manufacturer: Clementoni 2008
Piece Count: 2000 Pieces
Dimensions: 38 1/2" H x 26 1/4" L
( 97,5 x 66,8 cm)
Time: 36 Hours
***For sale or trade***
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere - Assembled
My first 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle assembled.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere- Pieces Detail
Celestial Planisphere puzzle, top left:
R. Des Cartes - Motum Lune.
Ren� Descartes (31 March 1596 ? 11 February 1650), was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be studied closely to this day. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.
Descartes was the first to make a graph, allowing a geometric interpretation of a mathematical function. He gave his name to points on graphs, calling them Cartesian coordinates. Descartes also made important contributions to the physical sciences, including the first formal definitions and measurement of momentum. He intended momentum to be a quantifiable and measurable concept related to what he termed the "amount of motion". Descartes said that the fundamental force of motion was mass multiplied by velocity, today's definition of momentum.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere- Pieces Detail
Celestial Planisphere, top center:
Hypothesis Ptolemaica.
Ptolemy, Latin in full Claudius Ptolemaeus (fl. AD 127-145, Alexandria), ancient astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who considered the Earth the center of the universe (the "Ptolemaic system"). Virtually nothing is known about his life.
Ptolemy accepted the following order for celestial objects in the solar system: Earth (center), Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. He realized, as had Hipparchus, that the inequalities in the motions of these heavenly bodies necessitated either a system of deferents and epicycles or one of movable eccentrics (both systems devised by Apollonius of Perga, the Greek geometer of the 3rd century BC) in order to account for their movements in terms of uniform circular motion.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere- Pieces Detail
Celestial Planisphere puzzle, top right:
Hypothesis Tychonica.
The "Hypothesis Tychonica" here shows the sun revolving around the earth like a moon and then the planets revolving around this unlikely orbit. As astronomers were sure at least Mercury and Venus revolved around the sun these planets are shown to orbit the sun which in turn orbits the earth and with the rest of the planets orbiting this. A complex attempt to explain the solar system without taking the earth from its centre.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere- Pieces Detail
Celestial Planisphere, bottom left:
P. Gassendi - Illuminatio Lune Per Solem.
Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 ? October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.
He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity.
This short introductory work of astronomy by the French natural philosopher Pierre Gassendi presents the cosmological theory of Tycho Brahe. This theory was a major competitor to the Copernican theory in the first half of the seventeenth century. It was a kind of compromise between the Ptolemaic and Copernican views. Gassendi is not normally remembered for his interest in astronomy, but his observation of the transit of Mercury was a significant contribution.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere- Pieces Detail
Celestial Planisphere, bottom center:
Hypothesis Copernicana.
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 ? 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published in 1543 just before he died, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution. His heliocentric model, with the sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of modern science that is now often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.
Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation ? yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere- Pieces Detail
Celestial Planisphere, bottom right:
P. Lansbergii - Solum Schema
I am unable to locate information regarding this chart.
Motus Terre Annui Circa Solem, (controversi seconda)
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere - Pieces Detail
Detail shot of the constellations in the Northern Hemisphere.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere - Pieces Detail
Detail of a section of the Northern Hemisphere. The Big Dipper (Ursa Major seen as Vrla maior) is left of center.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere - Pieces Detail
Detail shot of the constellations in the Southern Hemisphere.
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2000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Celestial Planisphere - Pieces Detail
Detail of a section of the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Cross is located at the legs of Centaurus.
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