Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Scenographia compagis mundanae Brahea

Barcode: 
4687820500308
Title: 
Scenographia compagis mundanae Brahea
Original Title: 
Scenographia compagis mvndanae Brahea
Contributor: 
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726
Contributor: 
Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719
Category: 
Thematic Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Latin
Create Year: 
1708?
Format: 
JPEG, 7789 × 6655, 51.2MB
Scale: 
Scale not given
Note: 
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.
Note: 
This is an early old map depicted the world and the East Asia before the Portuguese established the permanent settlement in Macao
Note: 
Macao in World Maps
Subject: 
Planispheres
Subject: 
Constellations
Subject: 
Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601
Subject: 
Astronomy
Geographic Area: 
World
Pub Title: 
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
Pub Author: 
Cellarius, Andreas
Pub Year: 
1708
Pub location: 
Amsterdam
Provenance: 
Houghton Library - Harvard College Library