Planisphaerium Arateum: Cellarius 1708

Title: Planisphaerium Arateum Author: Andreas Cellarius Date: 1708 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Fair - light age toning, surface dirt, significant repair to large areas of loss within image Inches: 21 x 18 [Image] Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image] Product ID: 319041 Planisphaerium Arateum Sive Compages Orbium Mundanorum ex Hypothesi Aratea In Plano Expressa. "Planisphaerium Arateum or the Structure of the Orb of the World Based on a Hypothesis of Arataeus Expressed in Plane." Geocentric celestial chart based on the observations of Greek poet Arataeus (c. 315/310  – 240 BCE) in Phaenomena, his major extant poem which describes various constellations and celestial phenomena. 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