Sun, Moon & Planets
The Face of the Sun
The spots that marred a perfect star.
- Chart
- Rosa Ursina sive Sol
- Astronomer
- Christoph Scheiner
- Date
- 1626–1630
- Held by
- Published Bracciano · 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
For two thousand years the Sun was held to be a flawless, unchanging fire. Then the telescope revealed spots crawling across its face — and Christoph Scheiner tracked them, day after day, proving the Sun was blemished, and turning. His great treatise laid out the observations in beautiful sequence, the dark spots drifting across the solar disc like weather. Another pillar of the old cosmos quietly falling: even the Sun, it turned out, was a changeable, spinning world.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
The Face of the Sun 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 Bracciano · 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.
