An early map of the Sun after Kircher and Scheiner

ZAHN, Johann.

Schema Corporis Solaris Prout Romae à Scheinero et Kirchero observatum fuit. Anno 1635.
Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Lochner, 1696. Coloured, 360 x 425mm.

Small tear in bottom margin repaired.

A very decorative, rare and fine print of the sun showing sunspots and solar flares, based on observations made by Athanasius Kircher and Christoph Scheiner in 1635.
It was published in ' Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium' by Johann Zahn (1631-1707), a philosopher of the Praemonstratensian order in Würtzburg who wrote a number of pseudo-scientific works accompanied by engravings of the highest standard.


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