Model for the Three Superior Planets and Venus
from Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum. Image enhanced for legibility.
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Ptolemaic model of the spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with epicycle, eccentric deferent and equant point. Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum, 1474.
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