Johann Baptist Homann
The Moon according to Hevelius and Riccioli, 1710 c.
19 ½ x 23 in
50 x 59 cm
50 x 59 cm
CELEST1467
Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevelii quam Ricciolo Stunning early 18th Century copper engraving of two comparative views by Johannes Hevelius...
Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevelii quam Ricciolo
Stunning early 18th Century copper engraving of two comparative views by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671).
Danzig-based astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) was responsible for publishing "Seleographia", the very first atlas dedicated to lunar observation in 1647. He found likeness between the topography of the Earth and that which he observed on the Moon through his telescope and began his own nomenclature system, naming lunar formations after terrestrial ones.
Italian astronomer and Catholic priest Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671) named craters and lunar landscapes after polymaths and astronomers Galileo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, and renamed the Mare (the large, dark, basaltic plains likened by Hevelius to seas). The names devised by Riccioli are largely currently accepted and still used to this day.
The map is surrounded by diagrams of moon phases and there is a Latin description along the lower edge of the map. Decoration and Putti using an elongated telescope adorn the top mantle of the map.
The moon images of the individuals above were taken and adapted for this work by Homann’s frequent collaborator, Johann Gabriel Dopplemayr, a surveyor, cartographer, astronomer and professor of mathematics. The astronomical plates present in Homann atlases were usually his work.
This example of the map is an early version, before Homann gained the Imperial Privilegio in 1715.
Original colour. [CELEST1467]
Stunning early 18th Century copper engraving of two comparative views by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671).
Danzig-based astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) was responsible for publishing "Seleographia", the very first atlas dedicated to lunar observation in 1647. He found likeness between the topography of the Earth and that which he observed on the Moon through his telescope and began his own nomenclature system, naming lunar formations after terrestrial ones.
Italian astronomer and Catholic priest Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671) named craters and lunar landscapes after polymaths and astronomers Galileo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, and renamed the Mare (the large, dark, basaltic plains likened by Hevelius to seas). The names devised by Riccioli are largely currently accepted and still used to this day.
The map is surrounded by diagrams of moon phases and there is a Latin description along the lower edge of the map. Decoration and Putti using an elongated telescope adorn the top mantle of the map.
The moon images of the individuals above were taken and adapted for this work by Homann’s frequent collaborator, Johann Gabriel Dopplemayr, a surveyor, cartographer, astronomer and professor of mathematics. The astronomical plates present in Homann atlases were usually his work.
This example of the map is an early version, before Homann gained the Imperial Privilegio in 1715.
Original colour. [CELEST1467]
