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Andreas Cellarius, Cosmographer > 
Andreas Cellarius, the Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660), a folio-sized work that is commonly regarded to be one of the most spectacular cosmographical atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century. Until recently nearly nothing was known about the life and background of Andreas Cellarius, who, on the title page of the Harmonia Macrocosmica, identified himself as the rector (headmaster) of the Latin School at Hoorn (a town to the north-east of Amsterdam). Recent research in the municipal archives of Amsterdam, Hoorn and The Hague has now made it possible to provide the following sketch of his life and career.
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