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Ptolemaic System.

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Facsimile of a depiction of the Ptolemaic system of the world/ the universe

Ptolemaic system of the world

Ptolemaic System from The Celestial Atlas by Andreas Cellarius

Ptolemaic System from The Celestial Atlas by Andreas Cellarius

Geocentrism or Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system. Astronomical model that places the Earth at the center of the universe. Drawing.

Geocentrism or Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system

The updated Copernican system, diagram showing the ordering of the planets with the moons of Jupiter, illustration from Dialogo sopra i due Massimi...

The updated Copernican system

Elaborate Celestial Map of the Ptolemaic System from The Celestial Atlas by Andreas Cellarius

Elaborate Celestial Map of the Ptolemaic System from The Celestial Atlas by Andreas Cellarius

Ptolemaic system of the Universe, 1708. Illustration showing the position of the Sun, Moon and planets and the band of the ecliptic. Proposed by...

Ptolemaic (geocentric/Earth-centred) system of the Universe, 1708.

Illustration depicting Ptolemaic and Tychonic systems of the universe. Dated 18th century.

Ptolemaic and Tychonic systems of the universe.

Illustration depicting Ptolemaic and Tychonic systems of the universe. Dated 18th century.

Ptolemaic and Tychonic systems of the universe.

The Almagest' by Ptolemy of Alexandria was one of the most influential scientific works in history. It first appeared c 150 AD, and described the...

Title page from Ptolemys �Almagest�, 1496.

Plantinotype print showing the structure of the world according to the Ptolemaic system that placed the Earth at the centre of the cosmos. Proposed...

The Ptolemaic system, from �Margarita Philosophica�, 1535.

The Almagest� by Ptolemy was one of the most influential scientific works in history. It described the Ptolemaic system of astronomy and geography....

Frontispiece from Ptolemys �Almagest�, 1496.

The Almagest� by Ptolemy was one of the most influential scientific works in history. It described the Ptolemaic system of astronomy and geography....

Epicycles described in Ptolemys �Almagest�, 1496.

The solar system model was used to demonstrate the motions of the Sun, stars and planets around the Earth. This Earth-centred model for the universe...

Brass armillary sphere made by Adam Heroldt of Rome in 1648.

Print showing the structure of the world according to the Ptolemaic system that placed the Earth at the centre of the cosmos. Proposed by Claudius...

The Ptolemaic system, from �Margarita Philosophica�, 1535.

Back cover of �The Almagest� by Ptolemy , one of the most influential scientific works in history. It described the Ptolemaic system of astronomy and...

Vellum binding from Ptolemys �Almagest�, 1496.

Engraving showing the solar system according to three astronomers. Ptolemy's theories of the universe dominated western ideas on astronomy until the...

�The Ptolemaic, Tychonic, and Copernican Sytems�, 1798.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Detail of the dial of the nodes. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Detail of the 24 hour dial. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Detail of one of seven dials. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and constructed this remarkable and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and constructed this remarkable and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Detail of the calendar of movable feasts . Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages,...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Detail of the interior. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

Reconstruction by Thwaites and Reed Ltd. Detail of the interior. Giovanni de Dondi , a scientific polymath of the Middle Ages, designed and...

De Dondi�s �Astrarium�, the world�s first astronomical clock, 1364.

This chart is taken from the book 'Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae' which was published in 1646 by the Jesuit scientist and inventor, Athanasius Kircher ....

Astrological chart, 1646.

This chart is taken from the book 'Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae' which was published in 1646 by the Jesuit scientist and inventor, Athanasius Kircher ....

Astrological chart, 1646.

This chart is taken from the book 'Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae' which was published in 1646 by the Jesuit scientist and inventor, Athanasius Kircher ....

Astrological chart, 1646.

This chart is taken from the book 'Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae' which was published in 1646 by the Jesuit scientist and inventor, Athanasius Kircher ....

Astrological chart, 1646.

Made by Caspar Vopel in Cologne, Germany, this brass armillary sphere is mounted on a turned wooden stand. A broad band, finely engraved with the...

Brass armillary sphere, 1552.

This European brass armillary sphere was made in the 17th century, but has been mounted on a later 19th century base with horizon ring. The...

Small armillary sphere, 17th century.

Ptolemy of Alexandria observing with a quadrant, with the goddess Astronomia behind him. Ptolemy was probably born in Egypt but produced his works...

Ptolemy, Greek astronomer and geographer, c 130 AD.

Vellum binding from �The Almagest� by Ptolemy which was one of the most influential scientific works in history. It described the Ptolemaic system of...

Front cover of Ptolemy�s �Almagest�, 1496.

Ptolemaic System.

Ptolemaic System

Ptolemaic System.

Ptolemaic System

Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. The Ptolemaic or geocentric model has the Earth at the centre of the Universe with all the other bodies, including the...

Ptolemic System 1660-1661

Ptolemy s System, explained by Johann Müller, called Regiomontanus. From reproduction of wood engraving of the EpitomeJohannes de Monte Regio, 1543....

Ptolemy s System

Dante's cosmology, based on Aristotelian and Ptolemaic system, with the nine concentric circles revolving around the earth, enclosed in the...

Illustration from Divine Comedy

Armillary sphere characteristic of the Ptolemaic system , 19th century. Paris, Musée De La Marine

Armillary sphere...

Picture shows Nicholas Copernicus , Polish astronomer. He abandoned the Ptolemaic System of astronomy and worked out a Heliocentric model . 1776...

Polish Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

Picture shows Nicholas Copernicus , Polish astronomer. He abandoned the Ptolemaic System of astronomy and worked out a Heliocentric model . Undated...

Engraving of Nicolaus Copernicus

Illustration depicting the Ptolemaic solar system, from a 17th century Dutch astronomical atlas published by Gerard Valk and Peter Schenk.

Diagram Of Ptolemaic Solar System

Illustration of different conceptions of the solar system from the 18th century. Figure I depicts the Ptolemaic Theory, Figure II, the Copernican...

Illustration of Copernican and Ptolemaic Views of the Universe

MAP OF THE WORLD, GEOGRAPHIC SYSTEM OF PTOLEMY.UNDATED.

French Simplification of Ptolemaic Map

Nicholas Copernicus , Polish astronomer. Abandoned the Ptolemaic system of astronomy and worked out a heliocentric model.

Portrait of Astronomer Copernicus

Circa 135 AD, Ptolemy c. 2nd century AD. Alexandrian astronomer, mathematician and geographer. He described a system of astronomy based on the theory...

Claudius Ptolemaeus

Title page of the Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, by Galileo Galilei , published in Florence in 1632 by...

Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems

The meeting between the Roman Ambassador, Popillius, and King Antiochus, Egypt, c18th century. Gaius Popillius Laenas was sent as an envoy to prevent...

The meeting between the Roman Ambassador, Popillius, and King Antiochus, Egypt, c18th century.

Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, weighing and comparing systems of the universe, 1651. She is depicted giving greater weight to Tycho Brahe's system,...

Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, weighing and comparing systems of the universe, 1651

Ptolemaic system of the Universe, 1708. Earth surrounded by water, air and fire and the spheres of the planets and stars. Proposed by Claudius...

Ptolemaic (geocentric/Earth-centred) system of the Universe, 1708.

Geocentric universe, 1493. God enthroned surrounded by the chosen and Angels, sits above a diagram of the geocentric Ptolemaic universe, with the...

Geocentric universe, 1493.

Ptolemaic Solar System, 1660. Scenographia Systematis Mundani Ptolemaici. The Earth circled by a band containing signs of the Zodiac and the orbits...

Ptolemaic Solar System

Ptolemaic Solar System, 1660. Scenographia Systematis Mundani Ptolemaici. At the centre of the map is Earth being circled by the sun, inside a band...

Ptolemaic Solar System

Ptolemy 's System, explained by Johann Müller, called Regiomontanus. From reproduction of wood engraving of the 'EpitomeJohannes de Monte Regio',...

Ptolemy 's System

Relief in the Hypostyle Hall at Edfu depicting the procession of the sacred barque, Egypt. Ancient Egyptian. Ptolemaic c 237 212BC. Edfu.

A relief in the Hypostyle Hall at Edfu depicting the procession of the sacred barque

Relief in the Hypostyle Hall at Edfu depicting the procession of the sacred barque, Egypt. Ancient Egyptian. Ptolemaic c 237 212BC. Edfu.

A relief in the Hypostyle Hall at Edfu depicting the procession of the sacred barque

Relief at Edfu depicting the pharaoh in his sacred barque, Egypt. Ancient Egyptian. Ptolemaic c 237 212BC. Edfu.

A relief at Edfu depicting the pharaoh in his sacred barque

Philae viewed from the Nile, The main Pylon and the west colonnade hall of the temple of Isis.The construction of the temple started during the reign...

Philae viewed from the Nile

Philae viewed from the Nile, The main Pylon and the west colonnade hall of the temple of Isis.The construction of the temple started during the reign...

Philae viewed from the Nile

Philae, The construction of the temple started during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and was completed by his successor Ptolemy III Euergetes....