Doppelmayr, an acclaimed astronomer, was born in Nuremberg in 1671. He was a member of the Royal Society of London and the Academies of Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg.
It is not surprising that Dopplemayr collaborated with Germany’s leading map publisher Johann Baptist Homann on both the terrestrial and celestial maps included in this atlas. He visited astronomers in many countries and hence in addition to the star charts and selenographic map, the atlas includes “diagrams illustrating the planetary system of Copernicus, Tycho, and Riccilio; the ecliptic theories of Kepler, Bouliaeu, Seth Ward and Mercator; the lunar theories of Tycho, Horrocks and Newton, and Halley’s cometary theory” (DSB IV, p. 166).
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Atlas novus Coelestis. Nuremberg: Homann’s Heirs, 1742.
First edition, folio (560 x 390mm), engraved allegorical additional titles (plain), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved index listing 30 subjects and 30 double-page engraved celestial charts and diagrams, some incorporating miniature world maps or spandrel illustrations of astronomical observatories, in contemporary hand colour and wash.
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1733-1806. Born in Norrköping.
Dansk geograf, gav 1769 ut en geografisk karta över Medelpad.
Land Survey Apprentice 1749, commission surveyor for the Västernorrland region in 1757. Staff surveyor 1784 for Vasa county. Retired 1802.
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Karta över Medelpad.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
STELLA [STOLZ, STOLTZ, SIGENIS], TIELEMANO.
1527-1589, d. Wittenberg.
His maps used by Ortelius, de Jode, Hondius, Blaeu.
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Totius Germaniae 1546.
Maps for Bible 1552-7.
Jerusalem 1557.
Revised Münster's Germany 1560.
Tooley.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
