Soliscirca Orbem Terrarum Spiralis Revolutio: Cellarius 1708

Title: Soliscirca Orbem Terrarum Spiralis Revolutio Author: Andreas Cellarius Date: 1708 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, faded original coloring Inches: 21 x 18 [Image] Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image] Product ID: 319042 Soliscirca Orbem Terrarum Spiralis Revolutio. "The Solar Cycle of the World." Celestial chart demonstrating the Earth's axes as it rotates around the Sun. Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas published in 1660 by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664) as a cosmographical supplement to his Atlas Novus. Cellarius had already started working on this atlas before 1647 and intended it to be a historical introduction for a two-volume treatise on cosmography; however,the second part was never published. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica were then reprinted in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk (1651-1726) and Petrus Schenk the Younger (1660-1711).