Globi coelestis in Tabulas Planas Redacti Pars V
| Reference: | ms2833 |
| Author | Gabriel DOPPELMAIER |
| Year: | 1742 |
| Zone: | Celestial Chart |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 580 x 500 mm |
€900.00
| Reference: | ms2833 |
| Author | Gabriel DOPPELMAIER |
| Year: | 1742 |
| Zone: | Celestial Chart |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 580 x 500 mm |
€900.00
Description
Celestial chart depicting the zodiacal constellations, represented in the classic form of mythological animals.
This is map number 24 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.
The reference grids allow you to calculate the position of the stars with reference to their right ascension and declination (notches of one degree) but also to their latitude and longitude (lines every 10 degrees). The lines of the tropics, the equator, the ecliptic and the solstice colure are highlighted.
In addition to the Ptolemaic constellations pertaining to the band, the following non-Ptolemaic constellations are described or drawn: Antinous, Cerberus, Scutum Sobiescianum, Vulpecula et Anser, Mons Maenalus.
In the chart is traced the path of an unnamed comet that, according to Robert Harry van Gent, who links it to the one that appears in Pars I in an adjacent area of the sky, is to be credited to Philippe de la Hire (1692). This comet is not currently classified because it is not attributable to verified observations, even in the Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique collected in Histoire de l'Académie (Royale) des sciences, for 1692, there are no reports of observations of comets made by de la Hire. In the table, however, we also find the paths of C/1577 V1 by Tycho Brahe, 1P/1607 S1 by Joannes Kepler (Halley's comet), C/1661 C1 by Johannes Hevelius, C/1680 V1 by John Flamsteed, C/1702 H1 by Philippe de la Hire, C/1707 W1 by Giandomenico Cassini and the partial paths of comets observed by G. Cassini and Bianchini respectively in 1706 and 1684 (shown complete in the table Pars IV).
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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