The Solar System
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742
$235
Print check at 24 x 16 in: 160 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.8% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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By the eighteenth century the Sun-centred universe had won — and Johann Doppelmayr set out to draw it as a triumph. His great plate lays the whole Copernican system out like the works of a jewelled clock: the Sun blazing at the centre, each planet riding its labelled orbit, the zodiac turning around the rim, and the corners packed with diagrams of eclipses and comets. It is the most celebrated planetary chart of its century — the moment the modern cosmos was not merely believed but proudly displayed, engraved with the confidence of a settled science.
- Maker
- Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
- Date
- 1742
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Published Nuremberg · David Rumsey Map Collection
- Credit
- Published Nuremberg · David Rumsey Map Collection
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00982
| Picture | 24 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 17.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 320 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.8% |
| 16 x 12 in | 224 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.6% |
| 18 x 12 in | 213 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.8% |
| 24 x 16 in | 160 | Good | Trimmed 4.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 149 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 128 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 74 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,840 x 2,690 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 75, lights 231 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 845.48
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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