CELLARIUS, Andreas. [A beautiful map of the Eastern Hemisphere]
Hemisphærium Orbis Antiqui Cum Zonis, Circulis, Et Situ Populorum Diverso. Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1660. Full original colour 415 x 510mm.
The Eastern Hemisphere including Europe, Africa, Asia and the north-eastern coast of Australia with superimposed climatic zones and planetary details. from the first edition of Cellarius's celestial atlas, the 'Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica' engraved by Van Loon. No other celestial atlas was published in the Netherlands until the 19th century. The highly elaborate engraved borders contain the title and four further spheres surrounded by decorative scrollwork and cherubs. This map shows Australia rather crudely represented, however it does take into account the Dutch discoveries up until and including Tasman's second voyage in 1644, although Tasmania just falls outside the physical limits of the map. Andreas Cellarius (active from 1656-1702), was a Dutch mathematician and geographer and rector of the Latin School at Hoorn. He may have been of German or Polish origin, with the name of Keller or Kellner. Cellarius adopted the system of Julius Schiller who renamed all constellations known at that time and sketched them again in order to fit the sky into a system of Christian symbolism. In Cellarius' "Atlas Coelestis" Schiller's system has been further elaborated to the extent that Schiller eventually became more widely known by Cellarius' atlas than by his own work. KOEMAN Cel 1 94
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