{"id":27008,"date":"2025-03-06T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiek\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/hemelkaart-tobias-lotter-1750\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:54:18","slug":"celestial-chart-tobias-lotter-1750","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/miscellaneous\/miscellaneous-before-1880\/celestial-chart-tobias-lotter-1750\/","title":{"rendered":"Celestial chart &#8211; Tobias Lotter, c. 1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Planisphaerium Coeleste<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. Copper engraving published by <strong>Tobias Lotter<\/strong> in Augsburg around <strong>1750<\/strong>. With original hand colouring (with later additions?). Size: 48 x 57 cm.<\/p>\n<p>The stars of the northern and southern hemispheres are depicted as allegorical figures, animals, and scientific instruments. The style of the constellations follows the &#8220;<em>Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia<\/em>&#8221; from 1687 by the Polish astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Hevelius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johannes Hevelius<\/a> (1611\u20131687), whose name appears on a banner beneath the hemispheres. The subtitle also indicates that the map is based on the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmond_Halley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edmond Halley<\/a> (1656\u20131742), the British astronomer after whom <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halley%27s_Comet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halley&#8217;s Comet<\/a> is named. The design of the chart was inspired by the work of the Nuremberg astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Christoph_Eimmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georg Christoph Eimmart<\/a> (1638\u20131705).<\/p>\n<p>Above and below the hemispheres, six diagrams are displayed. From the top left to the bottom right, we see astronomical models by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tycho_Brahe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tycho Brahe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ptolemy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ptolemy<\/a>, a model illustrating tides influenced by the moon\u2019s movement, a diagram showing the illumination of the moon by the sun, an astronomical model by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicolaus_Copernicus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copernicus<\/a>, and a model by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippe_van_Lansberge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lansbergen<\/a> depicting the Earth&#8217;s motion around the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias Lotter primarily followed a <a href=\"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/sold\/celestial-chart-homann-1740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chart<\/a> that had been published ten years earlier by his mentor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Homann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johann Baptiste Homann<\/a>, but he added two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/armillary-sphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">armillary spheres<\/a> (astronomical models for representing the great circles of the heavens) and two terrestrial globes.<\/p>\n<p>Homann, in turn, had reused a copper plate that had been made around 1700 by Pieter Schenk in Amsterdam to print a <a href=\"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/sold\/celestial-chart-pieter-schenk-1700\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celestial chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 1.650,- (incl. frame)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Planisphaerium Coeleste&#8220;. 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