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Antique Star Chart 1708 — Situs Terrae, Ptolemaic Heavens

Name: Antique Star Chart 1708 — Situs Terrae, Ptolemaic Heavens
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: RIJKSRPPAO29113
Price: 14.9 USD
Availability: InStock

CODE: RIJKSRPPAO29113

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Description

A celestial map of the earth among the heavenly circles, Amsterdam 1708

Situs terrae circulis coelestibus circundatae — the position of the earth surrounded by the celestial circles. The Rijksmuseum files the sheet as a celestial map of the earth after the Ptolemaic system and describes what is on it: the earth in the middle, meridians, the tropics and the paths of the stars drawn around it in the form of the zodiac, and a degree scale along the edges. The title is set at the upper left and right, framed by putti, and Urania, the muse of astronomy, sits in the lower right corner.

Plate 11 of Harmonia Macrocosmica

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 Pieter Schenk the elder and Gerard Valck published in Amsterdam in 1708, under a privilege of the States of Holland and West Friesland. The number 11 is its place in the book. Unlike most sheets of the series, this one names its engraver: Johannes van Loon. The record gives the technique as engraving and etching, and two dates, 1660 and 1708; we date the card by the edition, 1708.

Your file

Original	engraved by Johannes van Loon, published by Pieter Schenk (I) and Gerard Valck, Amsterdam, 1708
Sheet	432 × 509 mm
Scan	full sheet 5902 × 4994 px; the plate inside the trimmed border 4386 × 3717 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 49 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-29-1-13. The museum publishes the image in the public domain. 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 gives both dates and records that the print was used in the 1708 Schenk and Valck edition of Harmonia Macrocosmica. The card names the edition you are getting.

Who is the figure in the corner?

Urania, the muse of astronomy, as the museum's record identifies her.

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