A Mirror of the World: Five Centuries of Geographical Atlases
Systema solare et Planetarium. [1742]
1 pl. 50õ57 cm. Copperplate engraving. Hand-Coloured.
It is a scheme for the heliocentric system of the world with images of zodiac constellations. The map has a scheme for comparative sizes of the Sun and the planets, a massage to the reader, a scheme for the solar eclipse of May 12, 1776; and Ptolemaic, Tychonic and Coppernican world systems in its corners.
From: Atlas coelestis…exhibentur a Joh. Gabriele
Doppelmaiero… Nurnberg,Heredum Homannianorum,1742.
1 vol.(30 pl.) 54õ36 cm. Copperplate engraving. Hand-Coloured.
Shelfmark: Ê 1-Àñòð 8/5à
It is one of the first atlases of the sky, compiled on basis of the work of the German scholar Johann Doppelmeier and published by Homann. In addition to maps of the night sky with symbolic representations of constellations, the atlas includes schemes for the structure of the Solar System, schemes for the planetary motions, and a map of the Moon.
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