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Adaption of Robert Fludd's 16th century woodcut of Vitruvian man

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A diagram of a Lunar eclipse; from an Arabic astrological text

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Figure of the heavenly bodies - Illuminated illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric conception of the Universe by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho (?-1568). From his work Cosmographia, made in France, 1568 (Bibilotèque nationale de France, Paris). Notice the distances of the bodies to the centre of the Earth (left) and the times of revolution, in years (right).

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An Artificial VIEW of the TRANSIT of VENUS on June 3rd 1769 at LONDON in a large CELESTIAL LANDSCAPE.

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Venus Transit

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The Star Rose Dance of Venus and the Earth

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Venus Transit

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Figure du Passage de Venus sur le Disque du Soleil Par De La Lande 1769

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The Geography of the Transit of Venus Explained Benjamin Martin 1761

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The Transit of Venus

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The pentagonal nature of the path of Venus through an eight-year cycle, 1968-75

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The Venus Transit

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The Transit of Venus over the Sun’s Disc as seen from London, The Eastern Mouth of the Ganges, The Land of St. Helena and Bencoolen; June the 6th 1761 By James Ferguson.

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Copernican Universe 1696

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Vintage 17th Century Chart

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Geocentrism and the Center of the Universe

God is an infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. ~ Hermes Trismegistus

The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. In short, it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God that imagination loses itself in that thought. ~ Blaise Pascal

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1929 Vintage Astronomy Plate

Original, beautifully colorful detailed antique astronomy plate, printed in 1929. It shows the solar system and its planets, the seasons, the moon, compass rose, eclipses of sun and moon, solstices. This plate comes from a geographic atlas published in 1929 by the widow of Charles Bouret in Paris. The author of the engraving is E. Morieu. Text in Spanish.