Andreas Cellarius

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Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.

He was born in Neuhausen near Worms, Germany, and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. In 1625 he married Catharina Eltmans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn. He also published on fortification and on Poland.

The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.

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