Accession No

1642

Brief Description

cosmographical print, ‘Synopsis Scientiae Celestis or THE KNOWLEDGE of the HEAVENS of the EARTH’, by Benjamin Martin, English, 1743

Origin

England

Maker

Martin, Benjamin

Class

prints; cartography; astronomy

Earliest Date

1743

Latest Date

1743

Inscription Date

1743

Material

paper

Dimensions

framed: height 830mm; width 875mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Catalogue 10, Maps, at Weinreb & Douwma Ltd.; 93 Great Russell Street; London WC1, in 1973.

Inscription

‘Synopsis Scientiae Celestis
or THE KNOWLEDGE of the HEAVENS of the EARTH Displayed
To Sir Hans Sloane Bart. PRESIDENT; The COUNCIL and
FELLOWS of the ROYAL SOCIETY of LONDON
This Print is most Humbly Dedicated by the Author Benj’
‘Printed for J Newbery in Reading, Berkshire and Jacob Robinson at the Golden Lyon in Ludgate Street 1743’

Description Notes

cosmographical print, ‘Synopsis Scientiae Celestis or THE KNOWLEDGE of the HEAVENS of the EARTH’, by Benjamin Martin, English, 1743.

Engraved chart. Diagram with 4 columns of explanatory text cut and pasted either side. Sections on the Solar System, Theory of the Earth, Astronomical Circles, Chronological Tables, Solar and Lunar Eclipses. Chart composed of a series of concentric scales, with first point of Aries at March 10 1/2. Diagram of the solar system in centre and around the circumference 19 tables of astronomical and calendrical data. At the foot a diagram illustrating lunar and solar eclipses. Paper watermarked “IV”. Framed.

Condition: good; complete.

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