EditorialThe solar system and Planetarium, Illustration of the solar system from the 18th century, Fig. 2, p. 2, 1742, Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: Atlas novus coelestis: in quo mundus spectabilis, et in eodem tam errantium quam inerrantium stellarum phoenomena n...
EditorialPlan of the Tuileries Garden used as a scale of comparison with our planetary system, assuming the Sun represented by a globe 10 inches in diameter placed in the middle of the large basin, Projection of the relations of the solar system to the Tuilerie...
EditorialPlanisphaerium Braheorum, or the structure of the world, of the whole, from the hypothesis of Tycho Brahe in the plane meted out, Flat (planispheric) representation of the solar system according to the model of Tycho Brahe, pl. 6, p. 21, Cellarius, And...
EditorialPlanisphaerium the adherents of Ptolemy, or the machine are arranged in the plane of the orbits of the world, from the hypothesis of Ptolemaica, Flat (planispheric) representation of the solar system according to the Ptolemaic model, pl. 1, p. 6, Cella...
EditorialThe solar system ..., Solar system, seven-star, hyades, presepe, nebula in Orion, the figure of the ring of Saturn, the light-forms of Venus during their orbiting around the sun, the variable star Xim Schuran, the variable star o in the whale, some neb...
Editorialsolar system, Illustration of our solar system whose planets, Fig. 1, p. 78, 1581, Christoph Clavius: Christophori Clavii [...] in sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius. Romae: ex officina Dominici Basae, 1581.
EditorialIn the plane of the spheres of worldly things from the hypothesis of Aratea Arateum $ Planisphaerium the structure of the express or, Flat (planispheric) representation of the solar system according to Aratos, pl. 8, p. 27, Cellarius, Andreas, Andreas ...
EditorialAstronomia, The personification of Astronomy is wrapped in a star garment and supported with her elbow on a drawing of the solar system. Around her head is a halo of stars. She points to a winged devil figure in the air carrying a baby in his arms. Nex...
EditorialPoland. Sculpture of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) in Warsaw. Polish astronomer of the Renaissance who formulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system, holding an astrolabe. Etching 1850.
EditorialCopernican system - With the Sun, not the Earth at the centre of the solar system. The observed motions of the planets are described in terms of a complex set of circular orbits around the sun, this explaination later being replaced with the more elega...
EditorialPlanisphere. Copernican system, with the Sun, not the Earth at the centre of the solar system. The observed motions of the planets are described in terms of a complex set of circular orbits around the sun, this explaination later being replaced with th...
EditorialThe solar system. Conversations on the plurality of worlds ... Trans. 1715. A drawing of the solar system showing Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Below, a man and a woman in a garden. Image taken from Conversations on the pluralit...
EditorialAstronomers and planets of our solar system. The Discovery of a World in the Moone. Or, a Discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet. [By John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. London : Printed for John ...
EditorialAn artificial view of the transit of Venus, June 3, 1769 at London, in a large celestial landscape. Institutions of astronomical calculations; containing a survey of the solar system ... With a description of two new pieces of mechanism, etc. London : ...
EditorialPoland. Sculpture of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) in Warsaw. Polish astronomer of the Renaissance who formulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system, holding an astrolabe. Etching 1850.
EditorialCopernican system - With the Sun, not the Earth at the centre of the solar system. The observed motions of the planets are described in terms of a complex set of circular orbits around the sun, this explaination later being replaced with the more elega...
EditorialPoland. Sculpture of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) in Warsaw. Polish astronomer of the Renaissance who formulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system, holding an astrolabe. Etching 1850.
EditorialSolar System Planets Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1872, Atlas. Perthes, Johan Georg Justus 1749 – 1816, German publisher, was born in Rudolstadt in 1749. In 1785 he founded at Gotha the business which bears his name, Justus Perthes. In this he was joined i...
EditorialCopernican system - With the Sun, not the Earth at the centre of the solar system. The observed motions of the planets are described in terms of a complex set of circular orbits around the sun, this explaination later being replaced with the more elega...