Cities, Globes & the Heavens
The Southern Sky
the constellation beasts prowling a translucent globe.
- Map
- Haemisphaerium Scenographicum Australe Coeli Stellati et Terrae
- Mapmaker
- Andreas Cellarius
- Date
- 1660
- Held by
- Ruderman / Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Cellarius drew the heavens the way an architect draws a building — in projection, in section, and always in perspective. This plate from the Harmonia Macrocosmica sets the southern constellations on a globe suspended above a landscape, so the viewer stands outside the sky and looks in at it. It is the most theatrical of the celestial atlases and the most sumptuously coloured, printed in Amsterdam at the moment Dutch cartography could afford to be beautiful before it was useful.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Ruderman / Wikimedia Commons — 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.
