Planisfero del Globo Celeste

This map presents the 67 astronomical constellations in use in his time: the 48 Ptolemaic, new 12 constellations in the southern hemisphere introduced by Keyser and Houtman, Ganymede, Coma Berenices, Pardocamelo, River Jordan, Alicorno, Columba Noe and the Crociero. In the Antarctic Circle draws the Cloud Minor and Major Cloud. Among the brightest stars in the name of the Goat and the Ear of the Virgin. The stars are divided into six classes for magnitude.

The map is accompanied by an explanatory text where the author claims to have followed the work of Bayer, Uranometria of 1603, both for technical and scientific contents for the style of representation of the constellations.

The World Map, Arctic and the Antarctic are represented in polar stereographic projection ecliptic convex. The grid centered on the pole of the ecliptic allows us to read the longitude of the stars with a precision of one degree every thirty there is a line of longitude, they lack the circles of latitude. Highlighted are the polar circles, those in the tropics, colures and the equinoctial circle. The two world maps are joined by colure of the solstices in the constellation of Sagittarius.

The map was printed in Rome by the typography of Giacomo de Rossi and is sometimes included in the editions of the Mercurio Geografico, the collection of maps of typography.

Etching and engraving, 1687, signed in the plate. Excellent work, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, small white spots in the top margin, traces of the central fold, otherwise in excellent condition. Finely hand colored.

Francesco Brunacci was born in Monte Novo, September 19, 1640. The earliest studies conducted in the country of origin, they went on from 1657 to 1662 in Macerata, majoring in civil and canon law. He moved to Rome, he worked as a lawyer to obtain the post of Consultore dei Riti, having been chosen previously, several times to settle disputes among the most distinguished personages of the time .He was auditor of several prelates and appreciated above all by Cardinal Vettori for his legal knowledge, philosophical and mathematical. Active in Rome at the court of Queen Christina of Sweden, was one of the 8 founders of the Academy desired by the Queen.