10 June 2016

Friday Inspiration: Cosmographics (Part 4: Orbits)

{left} Le Sphere de Monde by Oronce Fine, 1549  {right} Zubdet ut Tevarih by Lokman, 1583

{left} From Les Echecs amoureux ("Amorous Chess") made for Louise of Savoy, 15th c. {right} Attributed to the atelier of the Catalan Master of St Mark, last quarter of the 14th c.

{left} The Book of Secrets, France, 1656 {right}  Disquisitiones Mathematicae de Controversiis et Novitatibus Astronomicis Christoph Scheiner,  1614


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