Theoria Lunae: Cellarius 1708

Title: Theoria Lunae Author: Andreas Cellarius Date: 1708 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, faded original coloring Inches: 21 x 18 [Image] Centimeters: 53.85 x 46.15 [Image] Product ID: 319043 Theoria Lunae, Eius Motum per Eccentricum et Epicyclum Demonstrans. "The Theory of the Moon, Demonstrating its Movement through an Eccentricity and Epicycle." Celestial chart demonstrating the Moon's patterns of movement. 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 published. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica were then reprinted in 170