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1731 CELLARIUS, A. - Scythia et Serica.
Scythia et Serica.
| Maker: | CELLARIUS, A. | |
| Date: | Amsterdam, 1731 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 205 x 310 mm / 8.1 x 12.2 inches | |
| Condition: | In fine condition with folds as issued. | |
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An interesting map of the region between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of China, much of which is 'Terra Incognita' in the North and East. Based upon 2000 year old geography.
From an early edition of Cellarius' “Notitia Orbis Antiqui, Sive Geographia Plenior...et Novis Tabulis Geographicis”, which was published in Amsterdam. It features a decorative cartouche.
Scythia was a region of Central Eurasia in classical antiquity, occupied by the Eastern Iranian Scythians,[encompassing Central Asia, parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River with the eastern edges of the region vaguely defined by the Greeks). The Ancient Greeks gave the name Scythia (or Great Scythia) to all the lands north-east of Europe and the northern coast of the Black Sea.
Andreas Cellarius (ca. 1596, Neuhausen,– 1665, Hoorn) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his 'Harmonia Macrocosmica' of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
Andreas Cellarius (c.1596-1665)
Cellarius was a Dutch-German mathematician, astronomer and cosmographer, born about 1596 in Neuhausen (near Worms), who died in 1665. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg and emigrated to Holland in the early 17th century. In 1637 he moved to Hoorn, where he became rector (headmaster) of the Latin School, and there he wrote the Harmonia Macrocosmica and his other scholarly works, including one on designing impregnable fortifications and one on Poland. Little is known of his life, and until recently almost nothing. In 2008 the minor planet 12618 Cellarius was named after him.He is well known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus, Totius Universi Creati Cosmographiam Generalem, et Novam Exhibens.
Cellarius began work on the charts in 1647, as a historical introduction to a two-volume treatise on cosmography. Only this first part was ever realized. It was published in 1660 (and 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius (1588–1664) as a cosmographical supplement to his Atlas Novus.
The atlas has 29 double-folio engravings, a compendium of theories of the universe as of the late 17th century. It shows the old geocentric universe of Ptolemy, the heliocentric system of Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe’s hybrid, as well as the motions of the planets, the constellations of the northern and southern skies, and the phases of the Moon. The margins are decorated in the Baroque manner with cherubs, astronomers and classically dressed women holding scientific instruments among the clouds. It is the only celestial atlas published in the Netherlands in the golden age of Dutch cartography.
The atlas was leter republished by Schenk and Valk.
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