The solar system displayed – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
The solar system displayed comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
The solar system displayed
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Arranged as a diagram of the sun and its attendant planets, this plate sits among the astrology and magic prints, a pairing that reflects how closely earlier readers tied the heavens to human affairs. Before telescopic observation settled the order of the planets, such displays appeared in almanacs, manuscripts and printed cosmographies, where each body carried symbolic weight and was linked to a day of the week, a metal and a temperament. Worth noticing is how the sun is typically placed at the center as the governing light, with the planets arranged around it in the sequence astrologers used to read influence and fortune.
| Original scan | 5,442 × 6,682 px · prints to 18 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | ct003817 The solar system displayed. |
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