Description: Original Antique, European Astronomy Celestial Chart. Hand Colored. Professionally framed and matted with fade resistant plexi-glass. Measures: 29 1/4 inches wide by 26 inches high by 1 inch in depth. Image itself measures: 22 inches wide by 19 inches high. Says on the bottom of chart: “Opera. G. C. Eimmarti. Proftat in Officina Homanniana”.In very good condition. See all photographs and details as there are no returns. Metal wire on back ready to hang. Excellent condition with no tears, no rips, no missing sections. Beautiful detail and hand colors. A double hemisphere celestial chart, showing constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres depicted as allegorical figures, animals and scientific instruments. The stars are shown in six degrees of magnitude according to a key in the center between the hemispheres. The selection and style of the constellations followed that of Firmamentum Sociescianum sive Uranographia (1687) by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius, whose name is noted in the subtitle of the chart. The subtitle further indicates that the chart also draws on the work of Edmund Halley, the British astronomer for whom Halley’s Comet is named. There are numerous variants of this chart published in Germany in the 18th century; this example, Planispaerium Caeleste by Homann, bears the name of the firm (Officina Homanniana) under the border in the lower margin, together with the name of Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705), a Nuremberg astronomer.
Price: 1200 USD
Location: Hayward, California
End Time: 2024-01-30T02:06:14.000Z
Shipping Cost: 58 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Date Range: Pre-1400
Type: Celestial Map
Printing Technique: Lithography
Format: Celestial Map
Year: Pre-1400
Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
Cartographer/Publisher: Homann Heirs
