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A fine 17th century celestial chart explaining Lunar Phases

Typus Selenographicus Lunae Phases et Aspectus varios ad Umbrans.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1661. Original colour with additions, including gold highlights 440 x 515mm.
Stock #:  26184

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Description

A celestial chart illustrating the phases of the Moon, with the Earth at the centre, surrounded by the different phases of the Moon, with a human-faced Sun. The plate was engraved by Jan van Loon for the 'Atlas Coelestis; seu Harmonia Macrocosmica', the only celestial atlas to be produced in the Netherlands before the nineteenth century. It was a compilation of maps of the Ptolemaic universe and the more modern theories of Copernicus and Brahe, and remains the finest, most decorative celestial atlas ever produced. It was first issued in 1660; this example comes from the second edition published a year later, with a plate number added.

Condition:

A good example.

References:

KOEMAN: Cel 2.

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