The Celestial Figures
Title Page, the History of the Two Worlds
A man inside the circles of the sky.
- Work
- from Utriusque Cosmi Historia
- Maker
- Robert Fludd; published by Johann Theodor de Bry
- Date
- 1617
- Source
- Published Oppenheim, 1617 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A man stands with arms and legs spread inside the rings of the cosmos, while a winged figure in the clouds pulls on a cord that turns the whole wheel. This is the engraved title page of Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi Historia, the history of both worlds, the great one of the sky and the small one of the human body. The book was printed by the de Bry family at Oppenheim from 1617. Its argument is in the picture: the man is the small world, and he fits the large one exactly.
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The plate, in your home
Title Page, the History of the Two Worlds printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1617), held by Published Oppenheim, 1617 · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
