Nocturnal Celestial Globe / Globo Celeste Notturno
Petrus Plancius (Pieter Platevoet, 1552-1622) was a famous Flemish cartographer. He included new constellations in the austral celestial emisphere. In 1612, he drew 12 gores for a 14.5 cm...
View ArticleCelestial Globe from Ignace-Gaston Pardies’ Tables
[diameter of the Celestial Globe: 25 cm] Visit the David Rumsey Map Collection website to admire and download Pardies’ star and constellation maps. Another great website with a lot of information...
View ArticleCOELUM STELLATUM CHRISTIANUM (1660)
Whilst Kepler was studying the planets motion, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch, astronomer, Wilhelm Schickard, the astronomer and professor of Oriental languages at Tübingen, and Julius Schiller (c. 1580...
View ArticleCoelum Stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament)
Merry Christmas Happy 2015 Coelum stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament) A new year full of paper to cut, fold and glue!
View Article“Remaking the Heavens” /2. Scan, prototype, and the North Pole
Almost two years already passed since I published my first (and last) post on “Remaking the Heavens”. Well, I worked on it, but not enough… The first thing I did was to scan the pages of the “Libro dei...
View ArticleCoronelli’s Celestial Globe (Christmas Ornament version)
Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16, 1650 – December 9, 1718) was a Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of...
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