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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