Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius (printed in 1661) is an atlas of the celestial world systems as seen by the astronomers of the times - Copernicus, Ptolemy, Brahe, and Aratus - with 200 pages of Latin text. These 30 double-folio hand-painted color plates can be found in the University of Utah Digital Collection.
Andreas Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer. in Amsterdam, where He worked as school master of a Latin School in Amsterdam and later as a Latin school rector in Hoorn.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.





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