"Systema mundi Tychonicum secundum celeberrimorum astronorum Tychonis de Brache et Io. Baptistae Riccioli [...]."

Engr., 49,5 x 58,5 cm, hand-coloured (centerfold).

Framed.

Striking model of the solar system by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr according to the theories of Tycho Brahe and Giovanni Battista Riccioli. Doppelmayr, a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer, described the Tychonic system, a geo-heliocentric world system developed in the 1570s in which the Sun, Moon, and stars circle an immobile Earth, while the planets circle the Sun, and the modified version of this system by Riccioli which places the earth in the centre of the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter. This plate was first published in Homann’s "Atlas von hundert Charten" (1712). Later it was included in Doppelmayr's "Atlas Coelestis" (Homann heirs, 1742).
Ref. Christian Sandler. Johann Baptista Homann. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie, in: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde 21(1886), Nr. 4/5, p. 346