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Model for the Three Superior Planets and Venus from Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum.
Image enhanced for legibility.
The abbreviations in the center of the diagram read:

  • C[entrum] æquantis (Center of the equant)
  • C[entrum] deferentis (Center of the deferent)
  • C[entrum] mundi (Center of the world)
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Source http://www.univie.ac.at/hwastro/books/theoColMed.pdf
Author Georg von Peuerbach
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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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