Habrecht, Isaak (Johann Christoph Sturm, ed.)

[Planiglobium Coeleste et Terrestre. Platte Stern- und Länder-Kugel]. [Nuremberg: Paul Fürst or Christoph Gerhard, 1666]



Plates only (varying in size from 11⅜ x 11¾ to 14¾ x 11½ in.; 290 x 299 to 375 x 292 mm). 10 (of 14) folding plates, engraved by Jacobus ab Heyden; light dampstain in center folds of 2 plates with fold tears, upper left corner of last plate cut away (without loss?), 2 small library stamps on verso of first plate. Contemporary limp vellum; some soiling and staining.

Houzeau & Lancaster 3039; Warner, Sky Explored, p. 104; Zinner, Instrumente 350

Habrecht (1592-1633), physician and globemaker of Strassburg, engaged in scientific correspondence with Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635) concerning a bright color-changing meteor observed in southwest Germany in 1623. The present work is Habrecht's design for a large, elaborate, free-standing sextant with plates designed for various latitudes.

The first two plates are star maps, each 10 inches in diameter, of the northern and southern constellations. First published in Latin (Strassburg: Heyden, 1628), these plates appear to be from the last edition edited by Sturm (1635-1703).