Finely executed celestial model showing the movements of Venus and Mercury from an early edition of Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica. Andreas Cellarius was born in 1596 in Neuhausen and educated in Heidelberg. He emigrated to Holland in the...
Cassini's Mapping of the Comet of 1664-65 Finely engraved image of the comet which passed through the European skies between December 1664 and January 1665, which appeared Giovanni Domenico Cassini's rare Theoria Motus Cometae Anni MDCLXIV . . ....
Cassini's Mapping of the Comet of 1664-65 Finely engraved image of the comet which passed through the European skies between December 18, 1664 and January 15, 1665, which appeared Giovanni Domenico Cassini's rare Theoria Motus Cometae Anni MDCLXIV . ....
The Transit of the Great Comet of 1664 Rare celestial map showing both the figural representations of the constellations and the stars of which they are composed, which appeared in Stanislaus Lubienieck's Theatrum Cometicum, one of the great...
Observing The Great Comet of 1664 Rare celestial map showing figural representations of the constellations and the stars of which they are composed. The progress of the Great Comet of 1664 through this area of the sky is demarcated, The transit...
The Earliest Surviving Example of Jan Stampioen's Star Chart and Celestial Calculator Nice example of Vooght's rare celestial chart, published by Johannes Van Keulen in Amsterdam for Claes Jansz Vooght. Vooght's chart illustrates the stars visible...
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Fine fully colored example of this rare 17th Century map of the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, originally issued in 1674, by Ignace Gastone Pardies, in Paris and revised in 1690, based in part on the work of the French Jesuit mathematician and...
A pair of Celetsial Hemispheres issued by Coronelli in Venice. The images are trimmed as issued.
The Great Comet of 1680 Scarce map showing passage of the Great Comet of 1680, which appeared in Merian's Theatri Europaei, Zwölffter Theil. The map illustrates a comet seen by Sir Edmund Halley in 1680 and 1681, notably the year prior to his...
Fine Example of a Perpetual Calendar Circular figure showing a perpetual calendar, which was used to calculate future dates and events. The concentric circles of the diagram contain important information for figuring time, including zodiac signs,...
Mapping the Moon in the Early 18th Century Striking pair of maps depicting the surface of the moon, based upon the models of Johannes Hevelius and Giovanni Battista Riccioli. The two spheres of the moon provide a comparative analysis of the...
Striking celestial chart, showing the selenographic phases of the moon, from Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus. Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica (first published in 1660) is generally regarded as one of the most...
Decorative engraving of a pair of globes, one celestial, one terrestrial, engraved for Jacques Chiquet's Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et Historique. The Globes are surrounded by scientific models showing various perspectives on the...
Rare Eclipse Map of the 1715 Solar Eclipse by Polymath William Whiston Important early astronomical broadside, prepared by William Whiston (1667-1752), a prominent and prolific English theologian and mathematician, of the first solar eclipse to be...
Edmund Halley's Controversial Star Chart, Drawn From the Observations of John Flamsteed Nice example of this important early 2 sheet chart of the Zodiac, first published by John Senex in London in 1718. John Senex was one of the first English...
Decorative work showing a double hemisphere Celestial model, Double Hemisphere map of the world w/California as an Island, Armillary Sphere, Copernican Ptolomaic and Tycho Brahe models of the Solar System and a number of other Celestial and Solar...
