File:The BL King’s Topographical Collection - Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale.jpg

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English: Title: "Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale, in quo loca Stellarum fixarum secundum Æquatorem, per ascenciones ad annum 1730 completum, sistuntur, a J.G. Doppelmaiėro; operâ J.B. Homanni."

British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.1.62.

Former owner: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
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Johann Homann  (1664–1724)  wikidata:Q62706
 
Johann Homann
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Johann Baptist Homann; Ioannis Baptista Homann; Johann-Baptista Homann; Johann Baptista Homann
Description German cartographer, publisher and copperplate engraver
Date of birth/death 20 March 1664 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1724 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kammlach Nuremberg
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Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
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