Title: "Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium macularum exacta descriptio..."

Size: 

Sheet 53,5 cm x 64 cm

Engraving 48 cm x 57,5 cm

Condition: very good (small restored tear to the lower edge)

J. Doppelmayr ( 1677- 1750 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. He was  a member of the Royal Society of London and the Berlin and St. Petersburg Academies of Sciences. Doppelmayr developed a close relationship with the Dominican friar and cartographer Johann Batist Homann, the founder of a famous cartographic publishing firm. In the early 1700s, Doppelmayr prepared a number of astronomical plates that had appeared in Homann's atlases, which in 1742 were collected and issued as the "Atlas Novus Coelestis.."
The atlas contained 30 plates, 20 of which treated astronomical themes and historical development, including Copernicus's and Tycho Brahe's cosmological systems, illustration of planetary motion and the Solar System, and a detail of the Moon's surface based on telescopic advances.