Planisphaerium Caeleste
1720
Planisphaerium Caeleste. Celestial planisphere. Georg Christoph Eimmart, published by Johann Baptist Homann at Nuremberg, ca. 1720. First edition. Copper engraving. Contemporary colouring. Fine margins. Good condition. Platemark size: 49.5 x 58 cm. Leaf size: 53.6 x 61.7 cm Map of the northern and southern sky in two hemispheres, with three circular astronomical diagrams illustrating planetary theory (Tychonic, Ptolemaic, Copernican, lunar movements and tides, diagram of Ph. Landsberg). At the foot of the sheet, the inscription: « Opera G. C. Eimmarti prostat in Officina Homanniana ».
Celestial planisphere. A fine copy in contemporary colouring, in the first edition. Georg Christoph Eimmart, published by Johann Baptist Homann at Nuremberg, ca. 1720. Copper engraving.
