1707 Broadside, Joh. Meyer, Astronomia. Die Gestirn Kunst [Astronomy], folio

Extremely rare broadside by Johann Meyer (1655-1712).  

Astronomia. Die Gestirn-Kunst. 

Height: 11.42 in. (29 cm)

Width: 12.41 in. (31.5 cm)

Publisher: "Einer Kunst- und Tugend liebenden Jugend in Zürich, ab der Burgerl. Bibliothec am Neuen Jahrstag Ao. 1707 verehrt"  

Fascinating Broadside issued for the Youth of Zurich on New Years Day 1707.

Allegorical figure of astronomy, on the left Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo; to the left and right of the picture are three smaller depictions of the planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Moon.