Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm another fishwife

another fishwife

sheep [figure 4] and goat [figure 5]

A coat of arms appears below the main image

Leda and the Swan

pictured at home in Knowle

Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm another fishwifePtolemic 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 From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.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