The Northern Star Hemisphere

The most beautiful star chart ever printed.

Chart: Harmonia Macrocosmica
Plate: Haemisphaerium Stellatum Boreale
Astronomer: Andreas Cellarius
Date: 1660
Held by: Published Amsterdam · Linda Hall Library

Haemisphaerium Stellatum Borealeas mapped 1660

Finish

Format

The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Andreas Cellarius mapped the heavens with all the Baroque splendour a cartographer would lavish on a kingdom. His northern hemisphere gathers the constellations of the boreal sky into a single gold-and-azure disc — the gods and beasts of antiquity drawn in flowing line over their stars, cherubs and cloud framing the whole. The Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660 is the most beautiful celestial atlas ever printed, and this is its glory: the night sky rendered as a work of art worthy of what it depicts.

See it on your wall

A window onto the heavens, in your home

The Northern Star Hemisphere printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Northern Star Hemisphere framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Published Amsterdam · Linda Hall Library — the work is centuries out of copyright.
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

From the same astronomer