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George Kearsley - Celestial Map For Southern Hemisphere, 1802

.348. Star map

- Planetary System. Eclipse of the Sun. The Moon. The Zodiacal Light. Meteoric Shower. - Drawn by Levi W. Yaggy - Published in 1887 - Yaggy's large geographical charts are among the most beautiful and impressive educational charts published in the 19th century [...] - zoomable resolution here

History may not remember much about Andreas Cellarius, who, in 1660, was a school rector in Hoorn, The Netherlands. But Cellarius’s magnificent rendering of the geocentric cosmos endures. The sun, planets and constellations are seen orbiting the Earth, but in the lower right hand corner, Cellarius does acknowledge an alternative theory: Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe’s model, in which most of the universe orbits the Earth, but the other five known planets circle the sun.