Title: "Scythia et Serica"

Author: C. Cellarius

Note: from "Geographia Antiqua (...)"

Size: 

Sheet 25,5 cm x 38 cm

Engraving 20 cm x 30 cm

Condition: very good

Christoph Cellarius (1638 – 1707) was a German classical scholar. His unlatinized name was Christoph Martin Keller. In 1694 Cellarius was appointed professor of Rhetoric and History at the Friedrich University of Halle. He became dean of the first German Faculty of Philology in 1697. In 1702 he wrote his important book Historia Universalis, in which for the first time the entire history of Europe was classified into three periods: ancient history, medieval history, and modern history.