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academy hall first floor card

Andreas Cellarius
Facsimile
1660 - Reproduced 2019

Academy Hall, First Floor

This map shows the Ptolemaic view of the universe with the spherical earth at the center, surrounded by a sphere of fixed stars which revolve daily from east to west as depicted by the ribbon of the zodiac, with winged figures throughout.

Reproduced from the David Rumsey Map Collection.