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Johann Christoph Weigel

Globus Coelestis Omnes Stellas fixas à No:biliss° Tychone Brahe, alijsq diligentiss° observats; accuratiss° exhibens: Australes insuper Petri Theodori Archinautae celeberrimi ostentans nec non Stellas quasdam novas & Cometarum aliquot trajectiones adumbrans Omnib, ad annum 1625 accomodatis Studio et opera Isaaci Habrechti Phil: et Med: Doct, Norimberga 1675 circa

Propongo due delle tavole celesti reincise intorno al 1675 da Johann Christoph Weigel.

Affermo reincise perché le due tavole sono identiche a quelle ideate da Isaac Habrecht II a Strasburgo nel 1621 ed incise da Jacob Petrus Heyden, eccone la descrizione:

Paulus Swaen Maps presenta le incisioni di Johann Christoph Weigel con la seguente scheda :

"Rare engraved globe gores for a pair of 20 cm (8 inch) diameter globes published in Nuremberg, and engraved by J.C. Weigel.

Two sets of 12 globe gores on 4 sheets, together with 2 uncolored sheets of the meridian ring, horizon and compass cap for the two globes, each sheet 360 x 420 mm.

The terrestrial sheets are uncolored, the celestial gores with beautiful original hand coloring, all the sheets signed "Joh. Christoph Weigel excudit."

A fine set of the Habrecht globe gores originally issued in 1621 / 1625, but here re-engraved by Johann Christoph Weigel (1654-1726), a Nuremberg engraver and map seller, in the later part of the 17th century, probably around 1675.

Auction records list just one celestial set in the last 25 years sold in Germany in 2003.

Stevenson notes the rarity of the Halbrecht globes as originally published, and describes the terrestrial globe's interesting antecedents, tracing the lineage from Blaeu via Hondius, noting that the loxodromic lines 'are made a conspicuous feature of the map', the prime meridian runs through the island of Corvo in the Azores.

Reference: Stevenson II 50; Shirley Mapping of the World 314. Wing H-2431a."

Planiglobium Coeleste in Atlas Portatilis, oder Compendieuse Vorstellung der Gantzen Welt/ in Einer Kleinen Cosmographie, Norimberga 1717

Globi Coelestis in sex tabulas planas redacti descriptio auctore R. P. Ignatio Pardies Societatis Iesu Mathematico. Excudit Norimbergae Christophorus Weigelius cum Privilegio S. C. M., Norimberga 1725 circa da un'opera di Ignace-Gaston Pardies del 1674