Astronomical Chart
date: label: date made
content: 1708
notes: label: Description
content: “HAEMISPHAERIA SPHAERUM RECTAE ET OBLIQUAE UTRIUSQUE MOTUS ET LONGITUDINES TAM COELESTES QUAM TERRESTRES AC STELLARUM AFFECTIONED MONSRANTIA” shows the relative positions of the equator, the tropics, the Arctic, the Antarctic, etc. It is image #12 from the <i>Harmonia Macrocosmica</i> created by Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665), a cartographer and cosmographer in the Netherlands. The "Apud GERARDUM VALK et PETRUM SCHENK, Amstelaedami" inscription indicates that this print is from the reprint edition of 1708, rather than the original edition of 1660.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: North Holland, Amsterdam
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317509
label: catalog number
content: 317509
label: accession number
content: 230391
objectType: label: Object Name
content: celestial chart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 24 in; 53.34 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 24 3/4 in; 53.34 cm x 62.865 cm