Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui cum Zonis, Circulis et situ popolorum diverso(rum)

Reference: S14023
Author Andreas CELLARIUS
Year: 1660
Zone: Celestial Chart
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 520 x 422 mm
€1,800.00

Reference: S14023
Author Andreas CELLARIUS
Year: 1660
Zone: Celestial Chart
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 520 x 422 mm
€1,800.00

Description

Andreas Cellarius's Western Hemisphaer showing the climate zones and population. From Atlas Coelestis Seu Harmonia Macrocosmica del Cellarius, first published by Janssonius in 1660.

His connection with the Janssonius publishing firm dates from around 1645. In this year Jodocus Janssonius, Johannes’s son, published Cellarius’s Architectura Militaris, a work on fortifications. In 1652 the Amsterdam publisher Gillis Jansz. Valckenier published Cellarius's Regni Poloniae … with 21 maps.

In 1660, Joannes Janssonius added a celestial atlas to his Atlas Major, the beautiful Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. In 1661 the atlas was republished as a separate publication. The plates of the Harmonia Macrocosmica were reprinted (without the Latin commentary) in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Valk and Schenk.

The Harmonia Macrocosmica is the most beautiful celestial atlas ever published and is one of the notable masterworks from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. The first part of the atlas contains engravings depicting the world systems of Claudius Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe. At the end are star maps of the classical and further constellations.

Copperplate with original hand colour, touched, in good condition.

Literature

Gent, R.H. van, De hemelatlas van Andreas Cellarius: Het meesterwerk van een vergeten Hollandse kosmograaf, Caert-Thresoor, 19 (2000), 9-25; Krogt, P.C.J. van der, Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici: New Edition pp. 270, 278 & 513-518.

Andreas CELLARIUS (Neuhausen, c. 1596 – Hoorn, 1665)

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica, commonly regarded as one of the most spectacular celestial atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century. The Harmonia Macrocosmica was published in 1660 (a reprint was issued in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius as a 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 issued. Cellarius resigned as rector in early 1665 and died in November on the same year. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica was reprinted (without the Latin commentary) in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk.

Literature

Gent, R.H. van, De hemelatlas van Andreas Cellarius: Het meesterwerk van een vergeten Hollandse kosmograaf, Caert-Thresoor, 19 (2000), 9-25; Krogt, P.C.J. van der, Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici: New Edition pp. 270, 278 & 513-518.

Andreas CELLARIUS (Neuhausen, c. 1596 – Hoorn, 1665)

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica, commonly regarded as one of the most spectacular celestial atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century. The Harmonia Macrocosmica was published in 1660 (a reprint was issued in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius as a 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 issued. Cellarius resigned as rector in early 1665 and died in November on the same year. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica was reprinted (without the Latin commentary) in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk.