Nuremburg: Homann’s Heirs, 1742 (ML)

Extent: Fol. (540 x 335) I + 31 coloured maps

Astronomical Atlas of Johannes Gabriel Doppelmayer, academic, professor of mathematics at the Aegien secondary school (from 1704 until his death). He published scientific works on mathematics, geography, cartography, and astronomy, including sun dials, spherical trigonometry, globes, and celestial maps. Doppelmayer developed a close relationship with cartographer Johann Batista Homann (1664 - 1724) who settled in Nuremburg in 1688 and become a map carver for Jacob von Sandrart and David Funck. In 1702, Homann founded an influential cartographic publishing house, which was run by his son Johann Christoph Homann (1703 - 1730) after his death, and after his death his friend Johann Michael Franz (1700-1761) and his step-sister’s husband Johann Georg Ebersberger (1695-1760) under the name “Homännische Erbena”. The publishing house survived under various names until 1848. Doppelmayer prepared a number of astronomical panels that were featured in Homann’s atlases that were published in 1742 as the Atlas coelestis ve quo Mundus spectabilis... atlas featured 30 panels: /I SPHÆRA MUNDI / II SYSTEMA SOLARE ET PLANETARIVM / III SYSTEMA MUNDI TYCHONICUM / IV theoria PLANETARUM PRIMARIORUM / V Phaenomena V PLANETIS PRIMARIIS / VI Phaenomena CIRCA QUANTITATEM / VII Phaenomena MOTVVM IRREGVLARIVM / VIII efemeridy MOTUUM coelestium GEOMETRICÆ / IX MOTUS V COELO spirály / X MOTVS PLANETARVM SVPERIORVM / XI TABULA SELENOGRAPHICA / XII theoria LVNÆ /XIII theoria ECLIPSIVM /XIV Theoria SATELLITUM IOVIS ET Saturni /XV GEOGRAPHIÆ RECENTIORIS ASTRONOMICA/XVI HEMISPHÆRIVM COELI Boreale /XVII HEMISPHÆRIVM COELI australe /XVIII HEMISPHÆRIUM COELI Boreale /XIX HEMISPHÆRIUM COELI australe /XX GLOBI coelestis V TABULAS PLANAS REDACTI PARS I /XXI GLOBI coelestis V TABULAS PLANAS REDACTI PARS II /XXII GLOBI coelestis V TABULAS PLANAS REDACTI PARS III /XXIII GLOBI coelestis V TABULAS PLANAS REDACTI PARS IV /XXIV GLOBI coelestis V TABULAS PLANAS REDACTI PARS V. /XXV GLOBI coelestis V TABULAS PLANAS REDACTI PARS VI /XXVI theoria COMETARVM /XXVII MOTVS COMETARUM V HEMISPHÆRIO BOREALI /XXVIII MOTVS COMETARUM V HEMISPHÆRIO Australi /XXIX Astronomia COMPARATIVA /XXX Astronomia COMPARATIVA.

Condition: The atlas is in its original, slightly worn binding. The title page is missing. The maps are complete, in very good condition. Bottom edges of four maps are slightly torn.