Title

Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius

Caption

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 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 From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.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 1660-1661).
Historica Graphica Collection

Date

1816

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D59_118

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,2Mb (5,2Mb) / 15,2in x 12,9in / 4552 x 3855 (300dpi)

Keywords

people religious country sign religion space planet science Earth solar system astronomy Holland Dutch color colour astrology Christianity constellation Greece location century orbit 17th century Ancient Greece Ancient Greek seventeenth century Ptolemaic system TGN star sign engraving map Claudius Ptolemy Claudius of Ptolemaeus Ptolemy Claudius Andreas Cellarius Historica Graphica Collection Cellarius Andreas Claudius Ptolemy engraving map