Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm pictured at home in Knowle

pictured at home in Knowle

A coat of arms appears below the main image

another fishwife

identifying the monuments as those of Percy Kirk Esq

Half length portrait showing Tycho Brahe at full face

Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm pictured at home in KnowlePtolemic System, 1660 1661. The Ptolemaic or geocentric model has the Earth at the centre of the Universe with all the other bodies, including the Sun, orbiting around it. From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius, published by Johannes Janssonius, (Amsterdam 1660