Planisphaerium Copernicanum: Cellarius 1708

Title: Planisphaerium Copernicanum Author: Andreas Cellarius Date: 1708 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Fair - age toning, surface dirt, significant paper repairs to areas of loss within image Inches: 21 x 18 [Image] Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image] Product ID: 3110019 Planisphaerium Copernicanum Sive Systema Universi Totius Creati ex Hypothesi Copernicana in Plano Exhibitum "The Copernican Plane or, the Entire Created System of the Universe from the Copernican Hypothesis, as Shown in the Plane" Celestial chart of Copernicus's view of the solar system. 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;