All hail the vintage infographic – artifact of the antique aesthetic, exemplar of long-departed publishing technologies, and bookmark into the ever-expanding annals of knowledge itself!
Slip the surly bonds of Earth with fifty classic celestial charts, including the vestigial self-centeredness of Cellarius’ 1708 Orbium Planetarum Terram Complectentium Scenographia (pictured above), as lovingly catalogued in the first installment of John Ptak’s Visual Chronology Of Cosmologies.
[Ptak Science Books via @bldgblog]