Claudius Ptolemy, astronomer, geographer and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria in Egypt in the 2nd century AD, formulated a system of the universe that placed the Earth motionless at the centre of the cosmos with the sun, the moon and all the other planets revolving around it.

Images of the Earth in the geocentric Ptolemaic System.

€ 0.95 – Ptolemaic hypothesis: Eccentric movements of the planets.
From Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius (17th cent.).
London, Stapleton Historical Collection.
©2018. Photo Scala, Florence/Heritage Images.

€ 1.00 Orbits of the planets around the Earth.
From Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius (17th cent.).
Private Coll. ©2018. A. Dagli Orti/Scala, Florence.

€ 2.00 Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei.
London, Mary Evans Picture Library.
©2018. Mary Evans/Scala, Florence.

€ 2,55 Ptolemaic Planisphere. Copper engraving.
From Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius (17th cent.).
London, Mary Evans Picture Library.
©2018. Mary Evans/Scala, Florence.

€ 3.00 Cosmologia Dantesca.
Florence, National Central Library.
©2018. Photo Scala, Florence – courtesy of Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo.