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English: The Ptolemaic geocentric model of the Universe according to the Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris). Español : El modelo geocéntrico del universo de Ptolomeo , de acuerdo al cosmógrafo y cartógrafo portugués Bartolomeu Velho (Biblioteca Nacional de Francia, París).
A gorgeous picture and the best available old illutration of the Ptolemaic geocentric model of the Universe. Articles this image appears in Geocentric model, Bartolomeu Velho Creator Bartolomeu Velho (? - 1568). Photo by Joaquim Alves Gaspar. Support as nominator Alvesgaspar 12:37, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
The geocentric model held sway into the early modern age, but from the late 16th century onward, it was gradually superseded by the heliocentric model of Copernicus (1473–1543), Galileo (1564–1642), and Kepler (1571–1630). There was much resistance to the transition between these two theories, since for a long time the geocentric ...
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In classical, medieval, and Renaissance astronomy, the Primum Mobile (Latin: "first movable") was the outermost moving sphere in the geocentric model of the universe. [ 1 ] The concept was introduced by Ptolemy to account for the apparent daily motion of the heavens around the Earth, producing the east-to-west rising and setting of the sun and ...
Original - Figure of the celestial bodies - Illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric model of the Universe by Bartolomeu Velho. Taken from Cosmographia (Bibilotèque National, Paris). Bartolomeu Velho (died 1568) was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer. [1]
This understanding was accompanied by models of the Universe that depicted the Sun, Moon, stars, and naked eye planets circling the spherical Earth, including the noteworthy models of Aristotle (see Aristotelian physics) and Ptolemy. [8] This geocentric model was the dominant model from the 4th century BC until the 17th century AD.
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