The Ptolemaic System (1579), Jost Amman.
Ptolemaic system, mathematical model of the universe formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy about 150 AD and recorded by him in his Almagest and Planetary Hypotheses. The Ptolemaic system is a geocentric cosmology; that is, it starts by assuming that the Earth is stationary and at the centre of the universe.
Jost Amman 1539 - 1591 was a Swiss artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations.
