Watched from a moving Earth, the planets do not simply circle — they loop, double back, and trace strange rosettes across the sky. Doppelmayr set out to draw those true apparent paths, and the result is one of the strangest and most beautiful diagrams in the whole atlas tradition: Venus and Mercury winding about the Sun in hypnotic spirals, pure geometry standing in for the wandering of worlds. Where other plates show the heavens as they are believed to be, this one shows the dizzying way they actually appear — mathematics rendered as ornament.

Maker: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Date: 1742
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Published Nuremberg · Bibliothèque nationale de France
Credit: Published Nuremberg · Bibliothèque nationale de France
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00984

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	379	Excellent	Trimmed 1.3%
14 x 11 in	274	Excellent	Trimmed 0.5%
16 x 12 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 5%
20 x 16 in	189	Good	Trimmed 1.3%
24 x 18 in	160	Good	Trimmed 5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 24 in	126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
40 x 30 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,840 x 3,033 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 131, lights 223 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

892.1

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Narrow tonal range (34 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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