Post by Laurens Hesselink

Nuremberg astronomer and professor of mathematics Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr died on this day in 1750 at the age of 73. Depicted here is a copy of his beautiful and highly decorative celestial chart, "Hemisphaerium coeli boreale in quo fixarum loca secundum eclipticae ductum ad an[n]um 1730 completum exhibentur" (Nürnberg, Heirs of Homann, 1742). In the beginning of the 18th-century Doppelmayr worked closely with the cartographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724). Together, they produced a number of atlases including the famous Atlas coelestis (1742), a collection of diagrams with explanations intended as an introduction to the fundamentals of astronomy. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e2wpFKG5 #celestialmap #celestial #astronomy #maps #mapoftheday #antiquemap #astronomer #nüremberg #JohannGabrielDoppelmayr #otd #onthisday #history #zodiacsigns #zodiac #heavens #heaven #german #nürnberg #mathematics #art #atlas #celestialatlas #celestialchart #constellation #cartograpby #maplovers #cartographyart #18thcentury