The Systems of the World
Cometographia
The great book of comets.
- Chart
- Cometographia
- Astronomer
- Johannes Hevelius
- Date
- 1668
- Held by
- Published Danzig · Linda Hall Library
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Comets were long feared as omens, blazing warnings hung in the sky — and Hevelius set out to make them a subject of science instead, cataloguing their forms, their glowing tails, and their paths across the heavens in his Cometographia. Its famous frontispiece shows the great astronomers seated in debate over what comets truly are. The moment dread began to give way to understanding, and the wandering fires of the sky became something to be measured rather than merely feared.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Cometographia printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Published Danzig · 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.
