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Decorative chart of the Solar System

Systema Solare et Planetarium ex hypothesi Copernicana...
Nuremberg, Homann, 1742. Original colour. 485 x 565mm.
Stock #:  24883

£1,500.00

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Description

Very decorative celestial chart of the Solar System according to Copernicus, with the orbits of the six known planets and their satellites, and a final ring with the signs of the Zodiac. The top left is a depiction of the relative sizes of the Sun and planets; bottom left a diagram showing where upon the globe the 1706 solar eclipse fell. From Doppelmayr's 'Atlas coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis et in eodem.'

Condition:

Split in lower centre fold repaired.

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