- Title: Tabula Selenographica
- Author: Homann & Doppelmayr
- Date: c.1720
- Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving
- Condition: Excellent
- Inches: 24" x 20 3/4" [Image]
- Centimeters: 61.54 x 53.21 [Image]
- Product ID: 003776
Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevellii quam Riccioli Curiosis Rei Sidereae Cultoribus exhibetur à Ioh. Gabr. Doppelmajero Math. P.P. opera Ioh. Baptistae Homanni Noremberge.
Map of the Moon and its geography based on observations by astronomers Johannes Hevelius (Polish, 1611-1687) and Giovanni Battista Riccioli (Italian, 1598-1671).
Background on Creator(s)
Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a leading German cartographer and engraver who founded a prominent map publishing house in Nuremberg in 1702, transforming German cartography by producing detailed, decorative, and scientifically accurate maps and atlases that rivaled those of France and the Netherlands; he was appointed Imperial Geographer by Emperor Charles VI in 1715 and became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750) was a renowned German mathematician and astronomer, best known for his popular works on celestial cartography and astronomy, who often collaborated with map publishers like Homann to produce some of the most famous celestial charts and atlases of the early 18th century, blending scientific rigor with artistic presentation