Astronomical Chart
notes: label: Description
content: “THEORIA SOLIS PER ECCENTRICUM CINE EPICYCLO” shows the sun in an eccentric orbit around the earth, without epicycles. It is image #16 from the <i>Harmonia Macrocosmica</i> created by Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665), a cartographer and cosmographer in the Netherlands. The “G. Valk et P. SCHENCK” inscription indicates that it is from the republished edition of 1708, and not the original edition of 1660.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317511
label: catalog number
content: 317511
label: accession number
content: 230391
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 24 3/4 in; 53.34 cm x 62.865 cm