Image:Tychonian system.svg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Image
- File history
- File links
Tychonian_system.svg (576 × 576 pixel, file size: 19 KB, MIME type: image/svg+xml)
 |
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below. |
|
|
Summary
Diagram depicting the basics of the Tychonian geocentric system. Basically, the objects on blue orbits (the Moon and the Sun) revolve around the Earth. The objects on orange orbits (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) revolve around the Sun. All is surrounded by a sphere of fixed stars. The system is essentially geocentric, though everything except for the moon revolves around Sun.
Distances are of course just generalized, though it is important that the minor planets are always "tied" to the Sun while the major planets can be on either side of the Earth.
Created by User:Fastfission in Adobe Illustrator.
Licensing
Use of this work which I have created is allowed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA license (see below). Credit must be given to "Wikimedia Commons." You can contact me if you would like to negotiate other licensing terms (which I am generally happy to do). Those who wish to use this in the course of teaching may do so without any limitations. -- Fastfission
   |
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. Official license |
File links
- Tycho Brahe
- Tychonic system
- Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/February 2006
- Portal:History of science/Article/2006 archive
- Portal:History of science/Article/Week 21, 2006
- Portal:History of science/Article/Week 20, 2006
