Scenography of the Copernican System
Andreas Cellarius, 1660
$123
Print check at 14 x 11 in: 209 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 6.8% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660) is the most lavishly illustrated star atlas ever printed — less a working astronomical tool than a Baroque celebration of the era's competing cosmological models, each given its own full double-page spread crowded with allegorical angels, zodiac figures, and portrait roundels. This plate lays out the heliocentric Copernican system: the sun at center, the six known planets on their orbits, the zodiac band ringing the whole composition, with cherubs unfurling a banner reading the plate's Latin title overhead. What to notice: Cellarius published barely six years before the Church's condemnation of heliocentrism began softening — his atlas presented the Copernican, Tychonic, and Ptolemaic systems side by side, letting the reader's eye do the arguing his text mostly declined to.
- Maker
- Andreas Cellarius
- Date
- 1660
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00265
| Picture | 14 x 11 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 15.6 x 12.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 292 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.1% |
| 14 x 11 in | 209 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,928 x 2,469 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 60, lights 226 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 86.68
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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