Historische Weltkarten I
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World Map --- Image by © Antar Dayal/Illustration Works/Corbis
Illustration from Mundus Subterraneus (1664/1665) by Athanasius Kircher. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The scenography of the planetary orbits encompassing the Earth. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. Scenography of the Copernican world system. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The planisphere of Tycho Brahe is depicted. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. Scenography of the world's construction according to (Tycho) Brahe. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. Tycho Brahe's (method of) calculation pointing out the courses and altitudes (i.e. distances) of the planets. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The hemisphere of the Old World, with its (climate) zones, (meridian) circles and the dwelling places of the distinctive races. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, 1660-1661. The location of the Earth encircled by the celestial circles. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. Representation of the Sun in an eccentric orbit without epicycles. --- Image by © Corbis
World Map Illustration --- Image by © Design Pics/Corbis
Double hemisphere map of the world by German cartographer Johanne Baptist Homann, circa 1716. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The planisphere of Copernicus, or the system of the entire created universe according to the hypothesis of Copernicus exhibited in a planar view. --- Image by © Corbis
1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The planisphere of Ptolemy, or the mechanism (i.e. the movements) of the heavenly orbits following the hypothesis of Ptolemy laid out in a planar view. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The scenography of the Ptolemaic cosmography. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The planisphere of Aratus, or the composition of the heavenly orbits following the hypothesis of Aratus expressed in a planar view. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, 1660-1661. The sizes of the celestial bodies. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The Ptolemaic or common(ly accepted) hypothesis, demonstrating the planetary motions in eccentric and epicyclical orbits. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. Hemispheres displaying both the celestial and terrestrial motions and longitudes of either sphere, the upright sphere (i.e. the equatorial co-ordinate system) and the oblique sphere (i.e. the ecliptic co-ordinate system), along with the influences of the stars. --- Image by © Corbis
1660-1661 --- A plate from the cosmographical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The (astrological) aspects, such as opposition, conjunction, etc., among the planets. --- Image by © Corbis