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CELLARIUS, Andreas (c.1596-1665)
[The Astrological Aspects, such as Opposition, Conjunction, etc., among the Planets] Typus aspectuum oppositionum et conjunctionum etz in planetis
[Amsterdam: G. Valck & P. Schenk, 1708]. Copper-engraved celestial chart, with full original colour. Sheet size: 19 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches. .
One of the finest and most highly decorative celestial charts ever produced, from the Valk & Schenk edition of Cellarius
This chart is from the Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus (Harmonious Universe or New and Universal Atlas) by Andreas Cellarius, the finest celestial atlas ever produced. It shows the various aspects of the planets from an astrological view point. It is a beautiful image, timeless in the abstract harmony of colour, shape, and composition, and also a record of the restless searching of the human mind for order in the un-ordered universe.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period when great advances were made in the understanding of the universe and our place within it. In tandem with these scientific advances came the perfection of the art of representing these ideas in a graphic form using engravings. The present image by Cellarius is the perfect example of this synthesis: an exquisite work of art that embodies the contemporary state of scientific knowledge of the heavens.
It was originally engraved during the greatest era of Dutch map-making, and was first published, in 1660, by Johannes Janssonius of Amsterdam. It was reprinted by Janssonius in 1661, and again in 1708 by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, who added their names to the plates.
Andreas Cellarius was born in about 1596 in Neuhausen, a small town near Worms in the Rhine-hesse region of Germany. From 1625 to 1637 Cellarius worked as a schoolmaster in Amsterdam and The Hague, and in 1637 he moved to Hoorn, where he was appointed as headmaster or rector of the Latin School. He published a number of works during his lifetime, but the last and greatest was the Harmonia Macrocosmica. Cellarius resigned from his post as headmaster in early 1665 and died in Hoorn in November of the same year.
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