Planisphaerium Arateum: Cellarius 1708
- Title: PLANISPHAERIVM ARATEVM Sive Compages ORBIVM MVNDANORVM EX HYPOTHESI ARATEA IN PLANO EXPRESSA
- Author: Andreas Cellarius
- Date: 1708
- Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving
- Condition: Excellent
- Inches: 21" x 18" [Image]
- Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image]
- Product ID: 003195
From Harmonica Microcosmica, Valk & Schenk, Amsterdam, 1708.
Sumptuously engraved celestial plate depicting a geocentric cosmos, with concentric planetary orbits encircling a central Earth and surrounded by the signs of the zodiac, classical deities, and allegorical figures. The broad outer border is animated with putti, mythological vignettes, and starry emblems, while the lower corners present scholars and astronomers gathered around large terrestrial and celestial globes, visually linking erudite scientific inquiry with the poetic cosmology of Aratus.
Background on Creator
Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas published in 1660 by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664) as a cosmographical supplement to his Atlas Novus. Cellarius had already started working on this atlas before 1647 and intended it to be a historical introduction for a two-volume treatise on cosmography but the second part was never published. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica were reprinted in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk (1651-1726) and Petrus Schenk the Younger (1660-1711), and it is from this edition that our plates derive.
These celestial charts are among the most beautiful engraved and hand-colored works of their era, and are highly sought after by collectors.
- Title: PLANISPHAERIVM ARATEVM Sive Compages ORBIVM MVNDANORVM EX HYPOTHESI ARATEA IN PLANO EXPRESSA
- Author: Andreas Cellarius
- Date: 1708
- Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving
- Condition: Excellent
- Inches: 21" x 18" [Image]
- Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image]
- Product ID: 003195
From Harmonica Microcosmica, Valk & Schenk, Amsterdam, 1708.
Sumptuously engraved celestial plate depicting a geocentric cosmos, with concentric planetary orbits encircling a central Earth and surrounded by the signs of the zodiac, classical deities, and allegorical figures. The broad outer border is animated with putti, mythological vignettes, and starry emblems, while the lower corners present scholars and astronomers gathered around large terrestrial and celestial globes, visually linking erudite scientific inquiry with the poetic cosmology of Aratus.
Background on Creator
Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas published in 1660 by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664) as a cosmographical supplement to his Atlas Novus. Cellarius had already started working on this atlas before 1647 and intended it to be a historical introduction for a two-volume treatise on cosmography but the second part was never published. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica were reprinted in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk (1651-1726) and Petrus Schenk the Younger (1660-1711), and it is from this edition that our plates derive.
These celestial charts are among the most beautiful engraved and hand-colored works of their era, and are highly sought after by collectors.
Description
- Title: PLANISPHAERIVM ARATEVM Sive Compages ORBIVM MVNDANORVM EX HYPOTHESI ARATEA IN PLANO EXPRESSA
- Author: Andreas Cellarius
- Date: 1708
- Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving
- Condition: Excellent
- Inches: 21" x 18" [Image]
- Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image]
- Product ID: 003195
From Harmonica Microcosmica, Valk & Schenk, Amsterdam, 1708.
Sumptuously engraved celestial plate depicting a geocentric cosmos, with concentric planetary orbits encircling a central Earth and surrounded by the signs of the zodiac, classical deities, and allegorical figures. The broad outer border is animated with putti, mythological vignettes, and starry emblems, while the lower corners present scholars and astronomers gathered around large terrestrial and celestial globes, visually linking erudite scientific inquiry with the poetic cosmology of Aratus.
Background on Creator
Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas published in 1660 by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664) as a cosmographical supplement to his Atlas Novus. Cellarius had already started working on this atlas before 1647 and intended it to be a historical introduction for a two-volume treatise on cosmography but the second part was never published. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica were reprinted in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk (1651-1726) and Petrus Schenk the Younger (1660-1711), and it is from this edition that our plates derive.
These celestial charts are among the most beautiful engraved and hand-colored works of their era, and are highly sought after by collectors.
