Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Fair
Confirmed: Check with entry 158
Date Acquired: 12/8/2020
Dealers ID No.: 43843
Description: The upper half represents the celestial vault with a radiant Sun, a crescent Moon, the stars and a portion of the zodiac with the signs of Virgo and Libra as observed by a pair of putti with cross staffs while another pair of putti uphold an emblem of the heliocentric world system and a banner with the books title.nThe depicted persons in the lower half can be identified as follows: seated in the centre with an armillary sphere on her lap and a ruler, a mariners astrolabe and a quadrant at her feet is Urania, the muse of astronomy.nSeated on the left is the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) with a celestial globe and a pair of dividers in his right hand, and on the right the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) with a graphometer at his feet and pointing at an armillary sphere.nStanding in the background at the left is the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (fl. A.D. 150), pointing to a passage in an opened book (the Almagest). Standing to the right of Urania in the background is the Castilian king Alfonso el Sabio (the Wise, 1221-1284), holding a model of the heliocentric(!) world system in his hands an apparent error of the engraver as this properly belongs in the hands of Copernicus.
First published: Harmonia Macrocosmica sev atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens, Amsterdam:
Image Size (cm): 43×26
Mapmaker: van den Hoven, Frederik Hendrik
Price: 2,000
Primary Category: Titlepage
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
References: Shirley (TP), #51.nFirst published by Jan Jansson in 1660
Sheet size (cm): 49×29.5
Shirley ID #: 51 Courtiers and Cannibals
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1706
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