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Ascend to the stars via a famously dazzling 17th-century atlas of 29 double-folio celestial maps, created by a master cartographer and cosmologer. Representing thinkers from Ptolemy to Copernicus, the richly adorned skies, ornate borders and constellations in this gorgeous reprint revive history’s most breathtaking visions of the skies.

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Ascend to the stars via a famously dazzling 17th-century atlas of 29 double-folio celestial maps, created by a master cartographer and cosmologer. Representing thinkers from Ptolemy to Copernicus, the richly adorned skies, ornate borders and constellations in this gorgeous reprint revive history’s most breathtaking visions of the skies.

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