Hemelkaart van het stelsel van Ptolemaeus Scenographia systematis mundani Ptolemaici (titel op object) Sky Map Where: the geocentric Ptolemaic system to be seen. Central a three-dimensional view of the globe in the eastern hemisphere, surrounded by the zodiac and the orbits of the planets, the moon and the sun. The card is provided with a degree scale along the edges. Left and right corner of a title cartouche, carried by putti. Underneath putti with different surveying instruments. Left and right under a performance with a cartographer, a globe and surveying instruments. Bottom right numbered

Hemelkaart van het stelsel van Ptolemaeus Scenographia systematis mundani Ptolemaici (titel op object) Sky Map Where: the geocentric Ptolemaic system to be seen. Central a three-dimensional view of the globe in the eastern hemisphere, surrounded by the zodiac and the orbits of the planets, the moon and the sun. The card is provided with a degree scale along the edges. Left and right corner of a title cartouche, carried by putti. Underneath putti with different surveying instruments. Left and right under a performance with a cartographer, a globe and surveying instruments. Bottom right numbered 2. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous editor: Peter Schenk (I) (listed building) Publisher: Gerard Valck (listed property) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1660 and / or 1708 Material: paper Technique: engra (printing process) / etch dimensions : plate edge: h 427 mm × W 509 mmToelichtingPrent also used in: Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas et Novus universalis. Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk (I) and Gerard Valck, 1708. See also: Ghent, Rob. The celestial atlas by Andreas Cellarius: a forgotten masterpiece of Dutch cosmographer. In: Caert-Thresoor, Volume 19, No. 1, 2000. Subject: zodiac;. the twelve signs of the zodiac together star chart, star mapinstruments used in geodesy, surveying instrument planets; planetary system, solar system

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