Earth's Place in the Universe Part 1

Following on from episode 1, now we expand the directions up and down to look beyond, at the whole universe and where Earth sits within it. The journey the Earth has taken through various different cultural depictions is truly amazing and there’s no way I can cover it even in a 2 part podcast, so in this episode I’m focusing on aspects from Greek, Roman and arabic natural philosophy, and naturally coming to the European renaissance and the scientific revolution.

Relevant art section:

1. Kepler’s platonic solids model from Mysterium Cosmographicum
2. Kepler’s second law gif
3. A simulation in case you want to play with Kepler’s second law
4. Artworks in my Instagram post for this episode

References

On the Nature of Things (English) by Lucretius

Ptolemy’s Almagest in English

De Revolutionibis in English

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