Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm identifying the monuments as those

identifying the monuments as those of Percy Kirk Esq

The crowd in the foreground is watching the procession passing in front of the opticians

pictured at home in Knowle

A coat of arms appears below the main image

View of Temple Church from across the graveyard

Ptolemic System Size:M: 75 x 60cm identifying the monuments as thosePtolemic System, 1660 1661. The Ptolemaic or geocentric model has the Earth at the centre of the Universe with all the other bodies, including the Sun, orbiting around it. From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius, published by Johannes Janssonius, (Amsterdam 1660