The Tychonic Universe in Perspective

Tycho's compromise: the planets round the Sun, the Sun round a still Earth.

Chart: Harmonia Macrocosmica
Plate: Scenographia Compagis Mundanae Brahea
Astronomer: Andreas Cellarius
Date: 1708 edition of 1660
Held by: Biblioteca comunale di Trento · via Wikimedia Commons

Scenographia Compagis Mundanae Brahea

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The story

From Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica, published in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius in 1660, in the 1708 issue by Gerard Valck and Pieter Schenk. The title calls it a scenographia, a view in perspective, of the frame of the world after Tycho Brahe. Tycho's system was the great compromise of its age, a geo-heliocentric universe: the planets circle the Sun, and the Sun with its train circles an Earth that never moves. It kept the Earth still and the observations honest at once. Cellarius gave the system both a flat chart and this view in perspective, and the perspective is the one that lets the eye walk around it.

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