COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Visconti, Sigismond
Author:
Dufour, Auguste-Henri (1798-1865)
Date:
1830
Short Title:
Coupe de la Terre prise sur l'Equateur et vue du cote du Pole Arctique (No. 6)
Publisher:
Charles Simonneau
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Celestial Map
Obj Height cm:
47
Obj Width cm:
52
Reference:
For the full text of the accompanying "Precis du Systeme Astronomique" see https://archive.org…
Subject:
Celestial
Full Title:
Coupe de la Terre prise sur l'Equateur et vue du cote du Pole Arctique (No. 6)
List No:
15436.008
Series No:
8
Publication Author:
Visconti, Sigismond
Publication Author:
Dufour, Auguste-Henri (1798-1865)
Pub Date:
1830
Pub Title:
Tableaux du Système Planétaire (with) Precis du Systeme Astronomique.
Pub Reference:
Houzeau & Lancaster 8172 (without the Précis); Bulletin des sciences géographies, Vol 5. p. 230 for a review of the 1825 edition of the six plates issued by Vilquin.
Pub Note:
"Rare expanded and revised edition of this magnificent, and no doubt expensively produced, astronomical atlas, together with the first edition of the often missing accompanying explanatory text volume. The seven stunning coloured double-page stipple plates are engraved by André Gianni after drawings by Sigismond Visconti (plates 1-V), with plate 6 revised by Auguste-Henri Dufour, and Dufour solely responsible for the most attractive and striking ‘Planisphère’. The plates beautifully illustrated the solar system, the orbit of the annual revolution of the earth around the sun and an indication of the seasons, the phases of the moon, eclipses of the sun and the moon, the tides ‘’flux et reflux’, a cross section of the earth taken at the equator and seen from the side of the Arctic Pole, and the final detailed planisphère ‘représentant les différents positions de la terre relativement au soleil pendant les douze mois de l’Année, calculé pour 1830’. The charts, minus the planisphere, were apparently first published by Visconti in 1815, issued in three parts over six months (according to a contemporary review in Le Constitutionnel, July 10th 1816, p.3), with a further issue of the 6 astronomical plates by Chez Vilquin in 1820-5. Dufour and Simmoneau added the planisphere to this edition of 1830, and renumbered the original plates. Further editions appeared in 1839 and 1859. The work was favourably reviewed in a number of contemporary sources, which praised Visconti for presenting the complicated theories of such luminaries as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton regarding the workings of the solar system and the principle phenomena, in such an easy to comprehend, and highly visual way. Intended for elementary education, they were no doubt originally intended to be displayed in classrooms. ‘Elles sont gravées par M. A Gianni sur un fond atmosphérique, par un procédé tout particulier, imitant le pointilllé roulette dans sa perfection, dont il est l'inventeur. Les exemplaires en couleur sont imprimés et coloriés avec autant de netteté que de soin et de goût. Nous devons ajouter que, dans son genre, cet ouvrage est ce qu'il y a de mieux’, (1825 review in the Bulletin des sciences géographies, and describing them as ‘Cartes Cosmographiques Élémentaires’). Sigismond Visconti (1785-18?) was an Italian-French writer active in Paris during the early 19th century. Adolphe Hippolyte Dufour (1795-1865) was a Paris based cartographer and atlas publisher, who is probably best known for his monumental folio Atlas Universel Physique, Historique et Politique Geographie Ancienne et Moderne. We have so far located no sets of the 1815 edition, and this 1830 issue, which is itself rare, seems to be the first to be more readily available. " (Deborah Coltham, 2023) See our 15413.000 for the later 1859 edition.
Pub List No:
15436.000
Pub Type:
Celestial Atlas
Pub Maps:
7
Pub Height cm:
47
Pub Width cm:
52
Image No:
15436008.jp2
Authors:
Visconti, Sigismond ; Dufour, Auguste-Henri (1798-1865)
