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[Models of the Solar System] The Name of the...

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[Models of the Solar System] The Name of the System According to the Astronomers. . .

Publication Place / Date

London / 1759

Image Dimensions

8.5 x 7 inches

Color

Hand Colored

Condition

VG+

Stock# 81624

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Description

Attractive original antique engraving of diagrams of celestial mechanics and of an armillary sphere showing the same.

The engraving shows diagrams of the Copernican System, Ptolemaic System, Tychonic System, and a Composite System invented by Martianus Capella.

The map appeared in the New Geographical Dictionary, published in London in 1759.

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