Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm sheep [figure 4] and goat

sheep [figure 4] and goat [figure 5]

The crowd in the foreground is watching the procession passing in front of the opticians

lighting the fuse of a six pound cannon with the target flags fluttering in the breeze behind him

Half length portrait showing Tycho Brahe at full face

another fishwife

Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm sheep [figure 4] and goatPtolemic 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 From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.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