![[The Sun] Schema corporis Solaris, prouta P P Kirchero](jpegs/56859.jpg)
[The Sun] Schema corporis Solaris, prouta P P Kircheroet Scheinero Roma Anno 1635 observatum suit.
[after Athanasius Kircher & Christoph Scheiner.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 200mm. Repairs, time stained. Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margin at top.
A plan of the surface of the sun, based on the work of Jesuits Athanasius Kircher (1601-80) and Christoph Scheiner (c.1573-1650) as published in Kircher's 'Mundus Subterraneus', 1665. A key labels the solar axis, the solar equator, the northern and southern poles, sunspots and solar prominences (clouds of smoke).
[Ref: 56859] £160.00
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 200mm. Repairs, time stained. Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margin at top.
A plan of the surface of the sun, based on the work of Jesuits Athanasius Kircher (1601-80) and Christoph Scheiner (c.1573-1650) as published in Kircher's 'Mundus Subterraneus', 1665. A key labels the solar axis, the solar equator, the northern and southern poles, sunspots and solar prominences (clouds of smoke).
[Ref: 56859] £160.00