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Digital Image: 1687 Rossi / Brunacci Celestial Star Chart
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Title
Planisfero del Globo Celeste Artico Antartico.
1687 (dated) 16.75 x 22.5 in (42.545 x 57.15 cm)
1687 (dated) 16.75 x 22.5 in (42.545 x 57.15 cm)
Description
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Cartographer S
Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627 - 1691) was an Italian engraver and printer, active in Rome during the second half of the 17th century. His father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570 - 1639), was the founder of the most important and active printing press of the 17th century in Rome. The printing press was begun in 1633, by Giuseppe de Rossi, and it passed firstly to Giovanni Giacomo and to his brother Giandomenico (1619 - 1653), and then later to Lorenzo Filippo (1682-?), then Domenico de Rossi (1659 - 1730). Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi was most active between 1638 and 1691 and was to take the company to the height of its success. The artists that he printed the etchings for included Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 - 1665), Pietro Testa (1612-1650), and Giovan Francesco Grimaldi (1606 – 1680). Cartographically he is best known for producing the maps of Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola and publishing them in his c. 1683 Mercurio Geografico. In 1738 the firm became the Calcografia Camerale, from 1870 until 1945 the Regia Calcografica, and today it is known as the Calcografia Nazionale. The Calcografia Nazionale holds is one of the finest collections of early printing plates and prints in the world. More by this mapmaker...
Francesco Brunacci (September 19, 1640 - November 6, 1703) was an Italian astronomer, philosopher, and mathematician. Born in the Marche region, he studied law in Macerata and then moved to Rome to begin a legal career. His attentions soon turned to mathematics and astronomy, and he studied with the monk Placido de Titi, an accomplished scholar of his time. He and his associate Francesco Maria Onorati reprinted Placido de Titi's work, but also improved deficiencies in it relating to the motion of celestial bodies. He is best known for his celestial chart 'Planisfero del Globo Celeste Artico Antartico,' which appeared in a 1687 atlas published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi. Learn More...
Vincenzo Mariotti (1650 - 1734) was an Italian engraver, printmaker and painter active in Rome. He is believed to have been a pupil and collaborator of the Jesuit architect and painter Andrea Pozzo. In the world of maps, Mariotti is primarily known for his work on Giacomo Rossi's 1688 Mercurio Geografico. Learn More...
Source
Rossi, G., Mercurio Geografico, overo Guida Geografica in tutte le parti del Mondo..., (Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi) 1692.
References
OCLC 949815644, 1410545555, 312894217, 243523933.