#ptolemaic system

[romangoldendream]

Devotion

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 175 -  Figure de sistemi del mondo d'Aristotile, Copernico, e Ticone

Space! Who doesn’t like space? Especially Galileo... ehm. This manuscript is a collection of diagrams representing the Ptolemaic and Copernican theories of the universe, with a final diagram representing the theory of Tycho Brahe. It was written in Italy, around 1680 CE. 

Click here for additional information, and here to see the facsimile.

[magictransistor]

Galileo Galilei, Telescopic observations of the phases of Venus, 1610.

[magictransistor]

Andreas Cellarius, The Harmonia Macrocosmica (frontispiece), c. 1680.

[magictransistor]

Jost Amman, Ptolemaic System, 1579.

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[emto-blog]

From Oronce Fine, "La Sphere du Monde" (Mss.), 1549, via bibliodyssey. More on Fine's biography can be found here and here.