Hypothesis Ptolemaica: Cellarius 1708

Title: Hypothesis Ptolemaica Author: Andreas Cellarius Date: 1708 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning and foxing, repaired worm hole in upper right border Inches: 21 x 18 [Image] Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image] Product ID: 3110020 Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus per Eccentricos, et Epicyclos Demonstrans "The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Demonstrating Common Planetary Movements Through Eccentrics and Epicycles" Celestial chart of Ptolemy's hypothesis regarding planetary movements. 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 publis