11-30-2022, 05:18 PM
Gregoire Mariette (1646-1710) Region elementaire ou sublunaire qui comprend les corps simples.
Gregoire Mariette, Paris, 1696 (51x36 cms)
A late 17th-century diagram summing up the nature of the four elements and their influences.
"Celestial chart hand coloured, presents the universe as a place that is simultaneously ordered and chaotic, spiritual and temporal, familiar and fantastical. A rare separately issued map of the cosmos, integrating ancient Pagan and medieval Christian cosmology with Renaissance beliefs and experiences. Originally published in Italian by Antonino Saliba in 1582, the map was later reissued in Latin by Cornelis de Jode in a slightly modified format (lacking one of the nine rings). This copy is a new edition published by Gregoire Mariette. Shows eight concentric rings, from the inner ring depicting the infernal regions to an encircling ring of fire populated by demons, phoenixes and salamanders. The fourth ring is a hemispheric map on a south-polar projection. Within the spandrels are decorative images of the sun and moon. The diagram is surmounted by a title with flanking hemispheric maps. The cosmic model of concentric rings was derived from Aristotle and Ptolemy, which in modified forms prevailed until the seventeenth century. The Ptolemaic model comprised nine spheres around the earth: five planets, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the primum mobile. This departure from the classical content of the nine spheres while retaining the structure, is entirely typical of the fluid state of Renaissance science."
Gregoire Mariette, Paris, 1696 (51x36 cms)
A late 17th-century diagram summing up the nature of the four elements and their influences.
"Celestial chart hand coloured, presents the universe as a place that is simultaneously ordered and chaotic, spiritual and temporal, familiar and fantastical. A rare separately issued map of the cosmos, integrating ancient Pagan and medieval Christian cosmology with Renaissance beliefs and experiences. Originally published in Italian by Antonino Saliba in 1582, the map was later reissued in Latin by Cornelis de Jode in a slightly modified format (lacking one of the nine rings). This copy is a new edition published by Gregoire Mariette. Shows eight concentric rings, from the inner ring depicting the infernal regions to an encircling ring of fire populated by demons, phoenixes and salamanders. The fourth ring is a hemispheric map on a south-polar projection. Within the spandrels are decorative images of the sun and moon. The diagram is surmounted by a title with flanking hemispheric maps. The cosmic model of concentric rings was derived from Aristotle and Ptolemy, which in modified forms prevailed until the seventeenth century. The Ptolemaic model comprised nine spheres around the earth: five planets, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the primum mobile. This departure from the classical content of the nine spheres while retaining the structure, is entirely typical of the fluid state of Renaissance science."
Adam McLean