Diversi globi terr-aquei statione variante… World Planisphere. Seutter c1744 map
£640
SKU: P-6-110305
Planisphaerium coeleste. Diversi globi terr-aquei statione variante et visu intercedente, per coluros tropicoriorum. Per ambos polos et particul. sphaeræ zenith in planum delineati orthographici prospectus. Quibus addita pro mutatione horizontis differentes sphaeræ positiones earumque. Mutua cum circ. coelestibus convenientia et relatio, Augustæ Vindelicor. cura et studio Matth. Seutteri, S. C. M. Geogr. C. Priv. S. R. I. Vicariat. A.C. Seutter delin. Andr. Silbereisen Sculps. (to accompany) Atlas minor praecipua orbis terrarum imperia. [Celestial Planisphere. Various representations of the terrestrial and aqueous globe, shown from differing positions and perspectives, through the tropic colures. An orthographic projection of both poles and particular zeniths of the sphere, drawn upon a plane. To which are added the differing positions of the spheres, corresponding to changes of the horizon, and their relationships. In mutual correspondence and relation with the celestial circles, prepared and published at Augsburg through the care and effort of Matthäus Seutter, Geographer to the Holy Roman Emperor, with Imperial Privilege of the Vicariate of the Holy Roman Empire.]
Antique 18th-century copperplate planisphere by Matthäus Seutter. Original wash colour, framed by ornate Baroque cartouches and Latin descriptive panels. A magnificent double-hemisphere projection with supplementary orthographic views of both poles and zeniths, incorporating schematic representations of the terrestrial and celestial globes. The composition illustrates the principal cosmological systems of Descartes, Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy, and Copernicus, engraved by Andreas Silbereisen, and stands as one of Seutter’s most didactic and decorative demonstrations of celestial geometry and Enlightenment scientific design. The terrestrial detail reflects both geographic discovery and enduring cartographic myth. California appears as an island; Tasmania lies isolated from the Australian mainland; and Hokkaido dwarfs Japan’s main island, Honshū. In Asia, the legendary Lake Chiamay is depicted as the source of four great river systems, while in Central Africa, a vast inland lake gives rise to the Nile, Niger, and Congo, with the Niger improbably flowing westward to the Atlantic near Cape Verde. Off the Chilean coast, a “land discovered by David Anglum in 1680” is noted — almost certainly a cartographic echo of Easter Island’s first European sighting. A masterwork of scientific imagination and Baroque artistry, this engraving unites the known, the conjectured, and the mythical in a single, luminous vision of the 18th-century world.
Size 22 x 30 cm | 8.5 x 11.5 inches
Date Published: Undated but circa 1744
Type: Antique 18th century copperplate map with original wash colour
Author: Seutter, Matthäus
Publication: Seutter's Atlas Minor
Condition: Good |
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