Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cms, good original hand-colour, blank verso.
Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas was printed by the Homann Heirs in 1742, but this is a much earlier example of one of J.B. Homann’s plates included in one of his first atlases. This map shows the orbits of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn around the Sun, derived from a hypothesis of Tycho Brahe, for the years 1701 to 1730.
