
The Copernican System
Andreas Cellarius, 1660
$123
Print check at 14 x 11 in: 206 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 8.9% 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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Here is the idea that moved the Earth. Cellarius diagrams the system of Copernicus — the Sun enthroned at the centre, and our own world reduced to just another planet wheeling around it — a rearrangement so profound it took the ground out from under humanity's feet and remade our place in the cosmos. Rendered with the same Baroque magnificence as the old system it would overthrow. The single most important diagram in the history of science, drawn as a masterpiece.
- Maker
- Andreas Cellarius
- Date
- 1660
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Published Amsterdam · Linda Hall Library
- Credit
- Published Amsterdam · Linda Hall Library
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00978
| 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 | 288 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.3% |
| 14 x 11 in | 206 | Excellent | Trimmed 8.9% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,886 x 2,490 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 84, lights 227 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 121.16
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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