I am an art history doctoral candidate specializing in seventeenth-century European astronomical illustrations. My dissertation evaluates three responses to Galileo’s lunar representations: Claude Mellan’s 1637 lunar engravings; Johannes Hevelius’s 1647 lunar atlas, Selenographia: sive, lunae descriptio; and Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s 1651 Almagestum novum. Each of these projects represents a different type of collaboration between artist and scientist in the early modern period. In revisiting seventeenth-century selenography, I hope to enhance our understanding of the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. As an art historian, I am interested in how the aesthetic aspects of these engraved lunar maps informed or enhanced their significance, both as scientific works and as cultural objects more generally. I am consulting primary and secondary sources on seventeenth-century astronomy within the HAB’s collection.

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