A Compendium of Astronomy: Being a Concise Description of the Most Interesting Phenomena of the Heavens, Intended to Accompany a Series of Thirty ... in Diameter (No 3 Set) Exhibited by the Imp - Hardcover
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Ptolemy considered the Earth to be in the centre of the system, and that the whole starry sphere revolved around it in 24 hours but that the Sun, Moon, and Planets revolved around it in periods varying more or less from that time; the Moon being the nearest, then Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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