universe – Old Maps Library https://www.oldmapslibrary.com Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:01:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.oldmapslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-compass-1-32x32.png universe – Old Maps Library https://www.oldmapslibrary.com 32 32 SOLAR SYSTEM circa 1786 https://www.oldmapslibrary.com/product/solar-system-circa-1786/ https://www.oldmapslibrary.com/product/solar-system-circa-1786/#respond Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:26:03 +0000 https://www.oldmapslibrary.com/?post_type=product&p=361 Vintage Illustration Reprint of the Solar System
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Illustration of the early theories of the Solar System.

Le Systeme de Ptolomee. Le Systeme de Ticho-Brahe. Le Systeme de Copernic. Le Systeme de Descartes.
YEAR: 1786
CARTOGRAPHER: Louis Brion de la Tour / Louis Charles Desnos
Map of the theories of the Solar System by Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and Descartes.
The illustration contain four models, each presenting the Sun, the planets and the moon.
Outside the spheres, the planets of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and the Sun are also detailed.
Ptolemic and the Tychonic System consist of a stationery Earth, while the Copernican and Cartesian System place the Sun in the center.
This map was originally published in the Desnons’ 1786 Atlas General Methodique et Elementarie, Pour l’Etude de la Geographie et de l’histoire Moderne.
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Map of the universe. The Phenomena of the Universe by James Wyld. Geographer to the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Albert, Charing Cross East London. c.1841.

Engraved map with 6 sections “Annual Revolutions of the Earth”, “Eclipses of sun and moon”, “Flux and reflux of the tides,” “Phases of the Moon”, “Comparative Dimensions of the SUN as seen from the different Planets”

Year: c.1841

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