Planisphaerium Arateum: Cellarius 1708

Title: Planisphaerium Arateum Author: Andreas Cellarius Date: 1708 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent Inches: 21" x 18" [Image] Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image] Product ID: 003195 PLANISPHAERIVM ARATEVM Sive Compages ORBIVM MVNDANORVM EX HYPOTHESI ARATEA IN PLANO EXPRESSA. From Harmonica Microcosmica, Valk & Schenk, Amsterdam, 1708. Geocentric celestial chart based on the observations of Greek poet Aratus (c. 315/310  – 240 BC) in 'Phaenomena,' his major extant poem which describes various constellations and celestial phenomena. 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 but the second