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Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer, collaborated with engraver and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) to create the „Atlas Novus Coelestis” („New Celestial Atlas”). The atlas presents remarkable phenomena of both wandering and fixed stars, including their light, shape, appearance, motion, eclipses, occultations, transits, magnitudes, distances, and other aspects, according to the hypotheses of Nicolaus Copernicus and partially of Tycho Brahe, specifically focusing on the investigation of planetary appearances, primarily from the observations of renowned astronomers. The maps were graphically depicted by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.

Initially published separately in various atlases by Homann, a collection of 30 maps was printed in Nuremberg in 1742 by the heirs of Homann. Doppelmayr's maps showcased models of the universe according to Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, planetary motions, the surface of the Moon, and constellations. The frontispiece features a copperplate engraving depicting Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, and Brahe.