Hypothesis Ptolemaica, sive, Communis planetarum motus per eccentricos et epicyclos demonstrans. The Ptolemaic hypothesis, demonstrating the planetary motions in eccentric and epicyclical orbits. Illustration by Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas. The first part of the atlas contains copper plate prints depicting the world systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe. At the end are star maps of the classical and further constellations, the latter ones as introduced by Julius Schiller in his Coelum stellatum christianum of 1627. | |
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