Globi Coelestis in Tabulas Planas Redacti Pars III
| Reference: | ms2832 |
| Author | Gabriel DOPPELMAIER |
| Year: | 1742 |
| Zone: | Celestial Chart |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 580 x 490 mm |
€900.00
| Reference: | ms2832 |
| Author | Gabriel DOPPELMAIER |
| Year: | 1742 |
| Zone: | Celestial Chart |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 580 x 490 mm |
€900.00
Description
Celestial chart depicting the zodiacal constellations, represented in the classic form of mythological animals.
This is map number 22 of the Atlas Coelestis (1742) by Johann Gabriel Doppelmaier that the professor of mathematics at the Aegidien Gymnasium in Nuremberg, referring in part to the work of Pardies, wrote around 1720 on behalf of the printing house founded in the same city in 1702 by cartographer Johann Baptist Homann.
The map, the fifth of six that together reproduce the entire starry sky, is square with 43.4 cm side, represents the constellations contained in the celestial belt around the winter solstice between 225 ° and 315 ° of right ascension and +45 ° and -45 ° of declination.
The gnomonic projection is concave, i.e. geocentric, and the stars, divided into graduated classes of six magnitudes, are positioned by calculating the precession of the equinoxes for the year 1730, are identified by letters of the Latin alphabet, the succession starts again for each constellation and corresponds to the list positioned to the right and left of the chart where, for each star, we find the coordinates in latitude and longitude, the magnitude and the description of the anatomical position in the mythological character.
Copper engraving, contemporary coloring, in excellent condition.
Gabriel DOPPELMAIER (1677-1750)
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Doppelmayr’s best-known astronomical work is his Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis et in eodem Stellarum omnium Phoenomena notabilia, circa ipsarum Lumen, Figuram, Faciem, Motum, Eclipses, Occultationes, Transitus, Magnitudines, Distantias, aliaque secundum Nic. Copernici et ex parte Tychonis de Brahe Hipothesin. Nostri intuitu, specialiter, respectu vero ad apparentias planetarum indagatu possibiles e planetis primariis, et e luna habito, generaliter celeberrimorum astronomorum observationibus graphice descripta exhibentur, cum tabulis majoribus XXX, published in 1742 by the heirs of Homann in Nuremberg. In this atlas, Doppelmayr collected most of the astronomical and cosmographical plates which he had prepared over the years for the Homann publishing firm and which had appeared in several of their atlases. These earlier atlases allow us to infer approximate dates for the design and preparation many of Doppelmayr’s cosmographical plates.
The earliest ones are plates 2 and 11 as they were already included in Homann’s first atlas, the Neuer Atlas (Nuremberg, 1707). Plates 3 and 7 to 10 were first published in Homann’s Atlas von hundert Charten (Nuremberg, 1712), whereas plates 1, 4 and 15 to 25 can be dated between 1716 and 1724 as they were not included in Homann’s Grossen Atlas (Nuremberg, 1716), but are mentioned in Hager’s list of plates sold by Homann at his death in 1724.
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Gabriel DOPPELMAIER (1677-1750)
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Doppelmayr’s best-known astronomical work is his Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis et in eodem Stellarum omnium Phoenomena notabilia, circa ipsarum Lumen, Figuram, Faciem, Motum, Eclipses, Occultationes, Transitus, Magnitudines, Distantias, aliaque secundum Nic. Copernici et ex parte Tychonis de Brahe Hipothesin. Nostri intuitu, specialiter, respectu vero ad apparentias planetarum indagatu possibiles e planetis primariis, et e luna habito, generaliter celeberrimorum astronomorum observationibus graphice descripta exhibentur, cum tabulis majoribus XXX, published in 1742 by the heirs of Homann in Nuremberg. In this atlas, Doppelmayr collected most of the astronomical and cosmographical plates which he had prepared over the years for the Homann publishing firm and which had appeared in several of their atlases. These earlier atlases allow us to infer approximate dates for the design and preparation many of Doppelmayr’s cosmographical plates.
The earliest ones are plates 2 and 11 as they were already included in Homann’s first atlas, the Neuer Atlas (Nuremberg, 1707). Plates 3 and 7 to 10 were first published in Homann’s Atlas von hundert Charten (Nuremberg, 1712), whereas plates 1, 4 and 15 to 25 can be dated between 1716 and 1724 as they were not included in Homann’s Grossen Atlas (Nuremberg, 1716), but are mentioned in Hager’s list of plates sold by Homann at his death in 1724.
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