Andreas Cellarius
{{Short description|Dutch–German cartographer}}
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Andreas Cellarius ({{circa|1596}}{{cite book |last1=Mendillo |first1=Michael |title=Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture |date=2022 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-84270-3 |pages=28–49 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84270-3_2 |access-date=12 February 2024 |language=en |chapter=New Players, New Roles}}–1665{{cite web |title=Andreas Cellarius (ca. 1596-1665) {{!}} Hoorns Biografisch Woordenboek |url=https://www.oudhoorn.nl/biografie/biografie_andreas_cellarius.php |website=www.oudhoorn.nl |access-date=12 February 2024}}) was a Dutch–German cartographer and cosmographer best known for his 1660 Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas.
Life
He was born in Neuhausen, and was educated in Heidelberg.{{cite web |title=The Life and Works of Andreas Cellarius |url=https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/cellarius/cellarius_biography.htm |website=webspace.science.uu.nl |access-date=12 February 2024}} The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622, when the city came into Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time, but based on his later works, it is conjectured that he spent time in Poland where he may have worked as a military engineer.
In 1625, he married Catharina Eltemans in Amsterdam, where he worked as a schoolmaster at a Latin school. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death, he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.{{cite web |title=Small-Body Database Lookup |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=12618&view=OPDC |website=ssd.jpl.nasa.gov |access-date=12 February 2024}}
External links
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Category:17th-century Dutch cartographers
Category:Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire
Category:Immigrants to the Dutch Republic
Category:Dutch celestial cartography in the Age of Discovery
Category:Astronomy in the Dutch Republic
Category:People from Worms, Germany
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