Cellarius' Typus Selenographicus Lunae phases et aspectus varios ad umbrans is a strikingly beautiful and ingenious visual explanation of the moon's phases and eclipses.

The central image depicts the moon's movement about the earth and its eight typical phases of appearance when viewed from earth in relation to the sun. This wonderful map also shows the basis for and phases of lunar eclipse and provides an unusual illustration of thirty-six lunar phases that accounts for the complex lunar observations that result from the relative movement of the moon and the sun across our sky.

This is an exquisite work of art that comprehensively expressed the state of scientific knowledge of the heavens in 1660. Our Perfect Recreation™ of this spectacular image transports to the 21st century this perfect example of the marriage of art and science that characterizes the Art of Discovery.

About Andreas Cellarius

Andreas Cellarius produced the most elaborately beautiful celestial atlas of the 17th century, the Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica. This startlingly gorgeous and imaginative work presented powerful visual explanations of the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Brahe as well as ingenious star charts and lunar diagrams.

Cellarius was born in Germany in 1596; he lived and worked in Holland from 1625 until his death in 1665, a period coinciding with the Golden Age of Dutch map-making and engraving.

Simultaneous with with the era's geographic and scientific discoveries, the art of graphically representing and disseminating these new ideas via engraving and printing was perfected.

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