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This print is titled "Systema Solare Et Planetarium" by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr - 1742


A celestial chart that depicts the Copernican cosmological system in the center. The upper left corner attempts to show the planets to scale with the Sun. The upper right corner shows heavenly clouds and other star systems that were thought to exist. The lower left shows the solar eclipse of May, 12, 1796. The lower right corner a depiction of a lunar eclipse is shown and below that we see the three cosmological systems of the time introduced by Urania, the muse of astronomy. Those systems are the Ptolemaic System, The Tychonic System, and the Copernican System. Urania clearly favors the Copernican System. This is probably the most desirable print from Doppelmayr's "Atlas Coelestis". The plate for this print was engraved sometime around 1720.