Nouvelle Carte Pour Conduire a l'Astronomie et à la Geographie et pour faire conoitre les Differens Sistemes du Monde...
| Reference: | S43053 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1719 ca. |
| Zone: | The World |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 605 x 510 mm |
€925.00
| Reference: | S43053 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1719 ca. |
| Zone: | The World |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 605 x 510 mm |
€925.00
Description
This great sheet combines a large, double hemisphere world map with a celestial map and several astronomical diagrams into a unique composition. The world map shows California as an island and the huge Terres Australes Inconues incorporating a partially formed Australia.
The models surronding the earth include a solar system Kirchers's model of the Sun, Cassini's models of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn. A double hemisphere celestial model, a Copernican model of the solar system, Descartes model, Ptolemy's Model, Tycho Brahe's model and an armillary sphere. Tables of extensive French text provide explanations of the diagrams.
Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie.
Copperplate with fine later hand colour, perfect condition.
Bibliografia
Koeman 1967-85 II: Cha 1-8.
Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)
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Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie. The Atlas Historique published by Chatelain was part of a major work of its time, an encyclopaedia in seven volumes including geography as one of its main subjectes. The text was by Nicholas Gueudeville and the maps by Chatelain. The Atlas included one of the finest maps of America (4 sheets) surrounded by vignettes and decorative insets.
1705-20 Atlas Historique:Amsterdam (maps by Chatelain based on G.Delisle)
Further issues to 1739
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Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)
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Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie. The Atlas Historique published by Chatelain was part of a major work of its time, an encyclopaedia in seven volumes including geography as one of its main subjectes. The text was by Nicholas Gueudeville and the maps by Chatelain. The Atlas included one of the finest maps of America (4 sheets) surrounded by vignettes and decorative insets.
1705-20 Atlas Historique:Amsterdam (maps by Chatelain based on G.Delisle)
Further issues to 1739
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