Thursday, 22 January 2015

Vintage Astronomy Celestial Copernican Planisphere Poster

Here's a great poster featuring a beautiful image from deep space


tagged with: constellations, retro, vintage, celestial, americana, antique map, nostalgic, atlas, copernicus, star chart

Vintage illustration Renaissance era astronomy and celestial image featuring an antique map with the sun at the center of the universe with planets circling, created in 1660 by Andreas Cellarius. Copernican Planisphere, from The Celestial Atlas, or the Harmony of the Universe. Andreas Cellarius (c.1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.

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