Celestial map by Lotter c. 1750
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CELESTIAL CHART. LOTTER, TOBIAS CONRAD. Planisphaerum coeleste. Aug. Vindel. (Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter) c. 1750.
Hand-coloured engraved double celestial hemisphere with 10 smaller diagrams (astronomical, small globes, armillary spheres) at top and bottom. C. 485x580 mm. Small repair to both sides of left and right margins, wear to centrefold, some soiling to margins.
The chart is centred on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, Landsbergen and Copernicus, two armillary spheres, 2 terrestrial globes, showing the inter-relation of the moon and tides, the illumination of the moon by the sun and the path of the earth around the sun.
From Atlas novus.
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