Details

Subject(s)

• Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543—Views on cosmography [Browse]
• Astronomy—Charts, diagrams, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Solar system—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Publisher

• Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Astronomical charts—1661 [Browse]

Summary note

"A 'scenographic' Copernican representation of the rotations of the Earth, with a display of the solstices and equinoxes shown. The seasonality of the angles of insulation are demonstrated by illustrations of the Earth for Northern Hemisphere winter (top), Northern Hemisphere summer (bottom), and spring and fall (at the sides)." --Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.

Notes

• Figures in margin.
• Plate removed from: Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus ... studio et labore Andreae Cellarii palatini. Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium, anno 1661.

References

• Celestial Images, Nov. 1985, p. 55.
• Roylance, D. European Graphic Arts, 1986, p. 63.

Other title(s)

Harmonia macrocosmica, seu atlas universalis et novus.

OCLC

491916832

International Standard Recording Code

• HM 2005-8

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