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Antique Star Chart 1708 — Haemisphaeria Sphaerarum

Name: Antique Star Chart 1708 — Haemisphaeria Sphaerarum
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: RIJKSRPPAO29114
Price: 14.9 USD
Availability: InStock

CODE: RIJKSRPPAO29114

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Description

A celestial map of the right and the oblique sphere, Amsterdam 1708

Haemisphaeria sphaerarum rectae et obliquae — the hemispheres of the right sphere and of the oblique sphere, with the motions and longitudes of both. The Rijksmuseum sums the sheet up in one line: a celestial map showing the paths around an upright earth and around a tilted one, with a degree scale running along the border. Those are the two classic cases of the old astronomy teaching: seen from the equator the heavens turn upright, seen from the middle latitudes they turn at a slant, and the sheet draws both so they can be compared.

Plate 12 of a famous atlas

The museum records that this print was used in Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus, the celestial atlas of Andreas Cellarius, in the edition published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk the elder and Gerard Valck in 1708. The number 12 in the lower right corner is its place in that book. The record dates the object 1660–1708; we date the card by the edition it was printed for, 1708. The engraver is not named — the record calls the printmaker anonymous and gives the technique as engraving.

Your file

Original	anonymous engraver, published by Pieter Schenk (I) and Gerard Valck, Amsterdam, 1708
Sheet	433 × 511 mm
Scan	full sheet 5932 × 4972 px; the plate inside the trimmed border 4396 × 3736 px. From the museum's own scan, not an upscale
Print size at 300 dpi	the map prints to 37 cm (15 in), the full sheet with margins to 50 cm (19 in)
You download	six ZIP archives: full sheet, trimmed, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and ISO A
Inside each one	one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF, a READ ME

How to print

Print at 300 dpi at the size above and do not let the shop scale the file up.
Pick the archive whose proportions match your frame, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Ask for matte fine-art paper, printed in sRGB with auto-enhancement off.
Where to print it: print shops near you and checked prices at online labs.

Source and rights

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object number RP-P-AO-29-1-14. The museum publishes the image in the public domain (CC0). There is no TIFF master in the package. Catalogue record: Rijksmuseum →

Questions

What exactly do I get after paying?

Six ZIP archives, each with one JPEG at 300 dpi, a restoration passport as a PDF and a READ ME. They differ only in framing.

Why 1708 and not 1660?

The museum dates the object 1660–1708 and records that it was printed for the 1708 Schenk and Valck edition of Harmonia Macrocosmica. The card names the edition you are getting.

Is this a map of the constellations?

No. It is a teaching diagram of how the heavens turn for an observer at the equator and in the middle latitudes, drawn as two hemispheres with a degree scale.

Every map is a scan of a real sheet held in a named archive — library, shelfmark and year, all stated. Nothing generated, nothing redrawn.