Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) maestro y matemático alemán - holandés, nacido en Neuhausen, cerca de Worms, establecido en Amsterdam a principios de 1620.
Fue rector de la Escuela Latina en Hoorn (ciudad al noreste de Amsterdam) en 1637.
Fue rector de la Escuela Latina en Hoorn (ciudad al noreste de Amsterdam) en 1637.
Su obra, Harmonia Macrocosmica, publicada 1660 en Amsterdam, fue uno de los más espectaculares Atlas Cosmográficos del siglo XVII. En ella plasma la representación de las constelaciones del viejo mundo tal como las concibió, inspirándose en los estudios elaborados, entre otros, por Copérnico y Tolomeo.
2da. Edición, impresa en 1661 y editada por Johannes Janssonius.

Frontispiece-Celestial Atlas or Harmonia Macrocosmica

A Brahean depiction of the world's structure.

A depiction of the Copernican system.

First hemisphere with the Christian constellations.

Hemispheres displaying- 1 the equatorial co-ordinate system and the eliptic co-ordinte system- 2 the celestial and terrestrial longitudes- 3 the influrences of the stars

Image of the aspects- oppositions- conjunctions- etc. among the planets

Map of the Old World- with climate and meridians.

Moon in an eccentric orbit with epicycles

Motions of the three superior planets -Mars- Jupiter & Saturn

Motions of Venus and Mercury

Planetary orbits around the earth

Ptolemy's hypothosis concerning planatary motion

Ptolemy's view of the universe

Second hemisphere with the Christian constellations.

Selenographic diagram of phases and appearances of the Moon.

Southern Hemisphere with constellations in equal proportion to the globes.

Spherical view of the celestial and terrestrial northern hemispheres

Sun in an eccentric orbit without epicycles

The ancient northern constellations

The ancient southern constellations

The Earth and its celestial circles

The northern constellations with the earth underneath

The northern constellations with the earth underneath

The planisphere of Aratus, or Aratus' hypothosis of the orbits of the planets in a planar view

The planisphere of Brahe, or Brahe's hypothesis in a planar view

The planisphere of Copernicus, or Copernicus' hypothesis of the entire universe, in a planar view

The planisphere of Ptolemy, or Ptolemy's hypothesis of the movement of the planets in a planar view.

The sizes of the celestial bodies

The spiral revolution of the Sun around the Earth

Tycho Brahe's calculation of the planets' orbits and distances

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