PLANISPHAERIUM CAELESTE
PLANISPHAERIUM CAELESTE
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- Description
- Chart of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres as seen from the outside looking in, centered on the ecliptic poles, with stars of magnitude 1-6 and nebulae. The text at top reads “PLANISPHAERIUM CAELESTE.” Those at bottom read "Opera G. C. Eimmarti” and “prostat in Officina Homannina." Georg Christoph Eimmart the younger (1638-1705) was a draughtsman and engraver in Nuremberg; Homann was an important publishing house, also in Nuremberg.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Measurements
- overall: 15 3/8 in x 24 1/4 in; 39.0525 cm x 61.595 cm
- overall: frame: 25 1/4 in x 28 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 64.135 cm x 72.39 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- PH.319252
- catalog number
- 319252
- accession number
- 236083
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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