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Systema Solare et Planetarium

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Solar system. "Systema Solare et Planetarium". 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.

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Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel

Homann, Johann Baptist

Nürnberg

1730

Solar system. "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 (19 1/2 x 22 3/4 inch.).

A very decorative Doppelmayr's 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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