Entering Mirkwood by Ted Nasmith ( lemmy.world )
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In 1660 Andreas Cellarius published a unique book. He worked with the engraver and portraitist Frederick Hendrick Van Hove, and the cartographer Johannes van Loon to compile the known history of astronomical systems into a single star atlas. Every competing theory and philosophy of the cosmos in a single volume. He called it the...
I wonder if Mrs. M. was flattered by this portrait?