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Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium ... Venus et Mercurius ... View larger

Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium ... Venus et Mercurius ...

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Merkur and Venus. "Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium ... Venus et Mercurius ...". Orig. copper-engraving after J. G. Doppelmayr. Orig. old colouring. Published by J. B. Homann (Heirs), Nuremberg, 1742. 49,5:58 cm.

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Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel

Homann, Johann Baptist

Nürnberg

1742

Merkur und Venus. "Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium quos Planetae inferiores Venus et Mercurius ad annum Salutis MDCCX Directionibus, Stationibus et Retrogradationibus suis e Terra  ... singulorum Periodi pro Hypothesos Copernic ... Geometrice demonstrata ...". Orig. copper-engraving after J. G. Doppelmayr. Orig. old colouring. Published by J. B. Homann (Heirs), Nuremberg, 1742. 49,5:58 cm (19 1/2 x 23 inch.).

This celestial chart shows the orbits of Earth, Mercury and Venus on the Copernican model for the year 1710. Along the left and right edges of the sheet are linear charts depicting the transit of Mercury across the Sun on November 5, 1710 and the predicted transit of Venus across the Sun on June 6, 1761. The elaborate allegorical scene represents the planets orbiting the sun with ‘mother earth’ being pulled through the heavens in a chariot; the wheel of the chariot visible to us contains a map of the South Pole. - Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750) was a German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer.

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