Ptolemic System gullibility Plate 92 from the book

Plate 92 from the book Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig

Thornycroft stopped building cars in 1913 to concentrate on the manufacture of commercial vehicles

Two boys showing their father the carving of an alderman they have made from wood

pencil and ink on paper

Ptolemic System gullibility Plate 92 from the bookPtolemic 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 From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.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