A Scheme of the Solar System with the Orbits of the Planets and Comets belonging thereto, Describ'd from Dr. Halley's accurate Table of Comets. . .

This wonderful broadside highlights the very latest discoveries and theories of planetary revolution, based upon the works of the English astronomers Sir Isaac Newton, and his successor at Trinity College in Cambridge, William Whiston (1667-1752), and Dr. Edmund Halley (of the comet fame).
The chart is designed to put across the relative distances, sizes, and orbital periods involved in the motions of the Solar System's planets and major comets. The collective nature of Senex's mapmaking practice is quite strong here, as the map makes use of Halley's observations and Newton's theories and mentions the work of Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed.
It is striking for its high level of textual and artistic detail, each orbit being formed by a line of text that describes the corresponding planetary body. The text that surrounds announces the correctness of the Copernican system, and describes the motion of each of the planets in greater detail.

The original London version of this particular chart remained popular in Britain for years, and was reprinted by Senex himself, and as late as c. 1760 by his successors, who purchased the plates after his death. Publishers in other European nations produced their own versions in other languages, changing some of the decorative elements, a common practice in the 18th century.

Senex was an English cartographer, engraver and explorer. John Senex was also an astrologer, geographer, editor, and seller of antique maps. He owned a business on Fleet Street, where he sold maps.