Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Solis circa orbem Terrarum spiralis revolutio
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Barcode:
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4687820500307
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Title:
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Solis circa orbem Terrarum spiralis revolutio
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Original Title:
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Solis circa orbem Terrarum spiralis revolutio
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Contributor:
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Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726
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Contributor:
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Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719
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Category:
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Thematic Maps
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Type:
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Printed
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Language:
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Latin
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Create Year:
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1708?
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Format:
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JPEG, 7722 × 6558, 53.9MB
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Scale:
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Scale not given
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Note:
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All maps engraved and hand-colored. Maps depict planispheres according to Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe; moon phases, constellations according to pagans and Christians, etc. One of 29 double-folio plates digitized from Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica. The second edition was published in 1661 and is a celestial atlas of the Ptolomaic, Copernican, and Tychonic world systems.
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Note:
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This is an early old map depicted the world and the East Asia before the Portuguese established the permanent settlement in Macao
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Note:
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Macao in World Maps
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Subject:
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Planispheres
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Subject:
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Constellations
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Subject:
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Astronomy
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Geographic Area:
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World
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Pub Title:
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Harmonia macrocosmica, seu, Atlas universalis et novus : totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem et novam exhibens : in quâ omnium totius mundi orbium harmonica constructio, secundum diversas diversorum authorum opiniones, ut & Vranometria, seu totus orbis cœlestis, ac planetarum theoriæ, & terrestris globus, tam planis & scenographicis iconibus, quam descriptionibus novis ab oculos ponuntur : opus novum, antehac nunquam visum, cujuscunque conditionis hominibus utilissimum, jucundissimum, maxime necessarium, & adornatum
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Pub Author:
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Cellarius, Andreas
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Pub Year:
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1708
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Pub location:
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Amsterdam
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Provenance:
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Houghton Library - Harvard College Library
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