The Ptolemaic System, from Chassaneus, Catalogus Gloriae Mundi, Frankfurt
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Jost Amman
Artist bio: Swiss, Zurich before 1539–1591 Nuremberg
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Swiss
Date: 1579
Medium: Engraving and etching; second state of two
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 15 1/2 in. (30.6 × 39.3 cm)
Plate: 10 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (27.3 × 36.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957
Accession year: 1957