The Celestial Figures
The Sphere of Amris
Two cones meeting at a point.
- Work
- from Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Maker
- Athanasius Kircher
- Date
- 1652–1654
- Source
- Published Rome, 1652–1654 · 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
Two cones, one dotted light and one solid dark, meet inside a circle under a winged disc. The heading reads Sphaera Amris. Athanasius Kircher used the figure in Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652–1654, to show spirit and matter meeting, the upper world reaching down as the lower reaches up. It is a diagram, but it is also a very good black-and-white picture: two shapes and a circle, nothing else needed.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Sphere of Amris 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 Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), held by Published Rome, 1652–1654 · 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.
