𝔳.𝔦.𝔱.𝔯.𝔦.𝔬.𝔩.

Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660), an atlas of the stars from the Dutch Golden Age of cartography, maps the structure of the heavens in twenty-nine extraordinary double-folio spreads.

The universe according to a 1565 text by the Portuguese cosmographer Bartolomeu Velho. Jesus and the angels float in the empyrean, which we would today call outer space. Also note the globe which reflects the early belief in a Northwest Passage that would allow ships to travel across Canada to the Pacific.