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Description: Andreas Cellarius: Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens. Plate 14. HYPOTHESIS PTOLEMAICA, SIVE COMMUNIS, PLANETARUM MOTUS PER ECCENTRICOS, ET EPICYCLOS DEMONSTRANS - The Ptolemaic or common(ly accepted) hypothesis, demonstrating the planetary motions in eccentric and epicyclical orbits.
Title: Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica - Hypothesis Ptolemaica
Credit: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/cellarius/cellarius_plates.htm
Author: Andreas Cellarius
Permission: Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain
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