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International philatelic exhibition Polska '73 in Poznań, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Mikołaj Kopernik (Copernicus).
Sheet 45
The Copernican atlas of the heavens
according to an engraving from the book "Harmonia macrocosmica" by Andreas Cellarius
The planisphere of Copernicus, or Copernicus' hypothesis of the entire universe, in a planar view
Click the sheet to see the colour plate from Harmonia macrocosmica
Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543), Polish astronomer who discovered that the sun, not the earth, is the center of our solar system.
The celestial chart illustrates the sun-centered solar system by Copernicus. The map has the sun in the center whith the planets orbiting around it in circles. The Earth is shown with its moon and its path around it. The planet Jupiter is shown with four moons (Jupiter has four large moons, discovered by Galileo, and almost sixty smaller ones have been discovered so far).
Andreas Cellarius (1595 – 1665), Dutch-German cartographer.
Światowa wystawa filatelistyczna = International philatelic exhibition.
Exposition philatelique mondiale (French) = International philatelic exhibition.
Polska '73 Poznań = Poland '73 Poznań.
500 lecie urodzin Mikołaja Kopernika = 500 years birth of Mikołaj Kopernik.
Planisphaerium Copernicanum sive systema universi totius creati ex hypothesi Copernicana in plano exhibitum (Latin) = Copernican planisphere, or the system of the entire universe according to the Copernican hypothesis, displayed in a plane.
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Andreas Cellarius
Andreas Cellarius (www.lib.utah.edu)
Andreas Cellarius (www.phys.uu.nl)
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Heliocentrism
Moon
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Jupiter
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