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Andreas Cellarius
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596–1665) was a Dutch–German cartographer and cosmographer best known for his 1660 Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas.
He was born in Neuhausen, and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622, when the city came into Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time, but based on his later works, it is conjectured that he spent time in Poland where he may have worked as a military engineer.
In 1625, he married Catharina Eltemans in Amsterdam, where he worked as a schoolmaster at a Latin school. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death, he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.
During his career, Cellarius produced several scholarly works on cosmography, geography, and military science while serving as rector of the Latin School in Hoorn. His earliest known publication was Architectura Militaris (1645), a treatise on the design and construction of fortifications. In 1659 he published Regni Poloniae, Magnique Ducatus Lituaniae… Novissima descriptio, a geographical description of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Cellarius is best known for his celestial atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, first published in 1660 (with a second edition in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius. The atlas was conceived as the historical introduction to a planned two-part work on cosmography, although the second volume was never published. All of Cellarius's known scholarly works were produced during his years as rector in Hoorn.
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Andreas Cellarius
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596–1665) was a Dutch–German cartographer and cosmographer best known for his 1660 Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas.
He was born in Neuhausen, and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622, when the city came into Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time, but based on his later works, it is conjectured that he spent time in Poland where he may have worked as a military engineer.
In 1625, he married Catharina Eltemans in Amsterdam, where he worked as a schoolmaster at a Latin school. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death, he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.
During his career, Cellarius produced several scholarly works on cosmography, geography, and military science while serving as rector of the Latin School in Hoorn. His earliest known publication was Architectura Militaris (1645), a treatise on the design and construction of fortifications. In 1659 he published Regni Poloniae, Magnique Ducatus Lituaniae… Novissima descriptio, a geographical description of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Cellarius is best known for his celestial atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, first published in 1660 (with a second edition in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius. The atlas was conceived as the historical introduction to a planned two-part work on cosmography, although the second volume was never published. All of Cellarius's known scholarly works were produced during his years as rector in Hoorn.