Coronelli, engraving of celestial world-systems, [late seventeenth-century]

CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA

Cosmography. [Venice, late seventeenth-century] 

Large bifolium with 9 separate engravings (484 x 658mm.), hand-coloured, minor restoration to central fold

These are cosmographical charts found in Coronelli's comprehensive atlas, the Atlante Veneto. The world-systems shown are Ptolemaic, Copernican and Tychonian. Also shown is Coronelli's failed attempt to depict the Cartesian world-system.

LITERATURE:

A. Mosley, "Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's Atlante Veneto and the diagrammatic tradition of Cosmography", Journal for the History of Astronomy 42, pp. 27-54