[Notable comets of the period 1577-1652] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Notable comets of the period 1577-1652], 1668 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/791eaf04f235-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures [Notable comets of the period 1577-1652] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Notable comets of the period 1577-1652]
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Plate L of Johannes Hevelius's *Cometographia* gathers comets seen between 1577 and 1652 onto one sheet, and its subject headings point to Halley's comet in the early 1600s. Hevelius, an astronomer in Danzig (now Gdańsk), printed the 1668 book on his own press, making it a major seventeenth-century work on comets. Engravings like this one recorded the sky as observers had drawn it, at a time when comets were still widely read as omens. Notice how the plate places many sightings side by side, inviting comparison of their paths across decades.
| Created / published | 1668 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Scientific illustrations 1660-1670.Book illustrations 1660-1670.Engravings 1660-1670. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum ... / Johnnnes Hevelius. Gedani, Auctoris typis, & sumptibus, imprimebat S. Reiniger, 1668, plate L, facing p. 452. Freitag, no. 1401. Published in: Halley's Comet: a bibliography / compiled by Ruth S. Freitag. Washington : Library of Congress, 1984, p. 228. |
| Subjects | Comets--1570-1660. Halley's comet--1600-1610. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 923 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161300 |
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