Systema Solare et Planetarium

Autor: Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel

Verlag: Homann, Johann Baptist

Verlagsort: Nürnberg

Erscheinungsjahr : 1730

Sonnensystem. "Systema Solare et Planetarium ex hypothesi Copernicana secundum ...". Orig. copper-engraving after J. G. Doppelmayr drawing. Orig. old colouring. Published by J. B. Homann (Heirs), Nuremberg, ca. 1730. 49,5:57,5 cm.

A very decorative Doppelmayr's chart of the solar system and constellations in the zodiac in the context of the solar eclipse of May 12, 1706. - With depiction of the then-known planets along with the Sun in the upper left corner, a depiction of the solar eclipse of May 12, 1706 in the lower left corner, clouds and diagrams in the upper right corner, and the illustration of the lunar eclipse and three cosmological systems (Ptolemy's, Brahe's, Copernicus') in the lower right corner. - Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750) was a German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer.

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