Dutch, 1596–1665
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596–1665) was a German-Dutch cartographer, remembered above all for his Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660) — the most spectacular star atlas of its age. Its twenty-nine hand-coloured copperplate charts map the rival models of the cosmos (Ptolemaic, Copernican and Tychonic) alongside sumptuous constellation hemispheres, uniting astronomy with Baroque splendour. The plates are among the most beautiful and most reproduced celestial maps ever printed.
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