Andreas Cellarius

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica (first published in 1660), commonly regarded to be one of the most spectacular celestial atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century. Until recently hardly anything was known about the life and background of Cellarius, who, on the title page of the Harmonia Macrocosmica, identified himself as the headmaster (rector) of the Latin School at Hoorn. He further mentioned that he came from the German Rhineland area known as the Pfaltz, but neither the town or the year of his birth were known, nor when and where he died. Recent research in the city archives of Amsterdam, Hoorn and The Hague has now made it possible to follow his life and career.

Andreas Cellarius Images:
The Celestial Atlas