The Northern Celestial Hemisphere of Classical Antiquity Hæmisphærium Stellatum Boreale Antiquum

by Andreas Cellarius, c.

$7,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

One of the finest and most highly decorative celestial charts ever produced, from the Valk & Schenk edition of Cellarius. This composition, of great artistic élan, presents a view of the constellations of the Northern Sky from the Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, the finest celestial atlas ever produced. According to the Classical astronomy, championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy, the stars were mounted on a huge, transparent, crystal sphere that was part

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