Scenographia Systematis Mundani Ptolemaici

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Original antique copper engraving, beautiful hand colored in outline and wash when published and heightened in gold. This highly decorative celestial map, which is heightened in gold, is showing Claudius Ptolemy's model of the universe with the earth in its centre. A highly decorative engraved and fine colored scene combined with a ring of twelve Zodiac signs circling around the earth. The decorative plate ornated in the lower corners with scenes of astronomers (Claudius Ptolemy) with instruments together with their pupils in front of large globes. The top corner arranged with highly decorative scenes of puttos and angels in the heaven. Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam. Andreas Cellarius, illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660). He was born in Neuhausen (now a part of Worms), and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time but based on his later works it is conjectured he spent time in Poland and may have even worked as a military engineer there. In 1625 he married Catharina Elt(e)mans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector. He published on fortification and on Poland. The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour. (Wikipedia) An old mended tear right of the lower centre-fold, in very good to excellent condition.

Peter van der Krogt, Atlantes Neerlandici Vol. 1 [HM:02:1] Variant b 1661 with the plate 2 in the bottom right corner