History of Astronomy : Topics

History of Astronomy: Topics: World Systems

• Systems of the Universe, by J.H. Hagen
  From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Aristotelian / Ptolemaic System
• Ptolemaic System
• The Ptolemaic model of the planetary system - the geocentric system
• Pietro della Valle, Compendio ..., 1624, 1631
  Risalah- i Padri Khristafarus Burris Isavi dar tufiq-i jadid dunya. Compendio di un trattato del Padre Christoforo Borro Giesuita della nuova costitution del mondo secondo Tichone Brahe e gli altri astologi moderni (Compendium of a tractate of Father Christoforo Borri, S.J. on the new model of the universe according to Tycho Brahe and the other modern astronomers)
• Copernican System
• Copernican System
• The Copernican model of the planetary system - the heliocentric system
• Interpretation of Scripture and the Copernican Theory
• Kant's System of Perspectives, by Stephen Palmquist
  • The Architectonic Form of Kant's Copernican System
• Calvin and the Astronomical Revolution, by Matthew F. Dowd

Wolfgang R. Dick Created: 22 Nov 1995. Latest update: 5 Jan 2000