Cities, Globes & the Heavens
A Celestial Hemisphere
The night sky, as a Baroque masterpiece.
- Map
- Harmonia Macrocosmica
- Mapmaker
- Andreas Cellarius
- Date
- 1660
- Held by
- Published Amsterdam
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
The most beautiful celestial atlas ever made — and a first taste of a whole sky waiting to be charted. Andreas Cellarius mapped the heavens as lavishly as any cartographer mapped the Earth, the constellations drawn as the gods, beasts, and heroes the ancients saw among the stars, the whole framed by cherubs and astronomers. It belongs as much to the story of maps as to the story of the stars — the point where the cartographer's art lifts its eyes from the world to the firmament above it.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Published Amsterdam — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag or textured laid stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on stock made to outlive its owner.
