SPHAERUM ARTIFIALIUM TYPICA REPRAESENTATION / novissime adumbrate / A JOHANNE BAPTISTA HOMANNO NORIBERGAE
Object Details
- Description
- This engraved print shows a celestial globe, a terrestrial globe, and an armillary sphere, each supported on a mount decorated with caryatids. The inscription refers to John Baptist Homann (1664-1724), a German engraver who established an influential cartographic house in Nuremberg in 1702. Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a professor of mathematics who worked with Homann on several astronomical projects, may have had a hand in the creation of this image.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- early 18th century
- ID Number
- PH.317813
- catalog number
- 317813
- accession number
- 231231
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 in x 24 3/4 in; 53.34 cm x 62.865 cm
- overall: 27 1/2 in x 29 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 69.85 cm x 75.565 cm x 2.2225 cm
- place made
- Germany: Bavaria, Nuremberg
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Science & Mathematics
- Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
- Subject
- Astronomy
- Record ID
- nmah_1167713
