Media Contributed by Rick
Title Page of Kepler's Harmonices Mundi 1619 first edition
The three models of planetary motion prior to Kepler Page 132 of Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova
Illustration of Kepler's three laws with two planetary orbits The orbits are ellipses, with focal points F1 and F2 for the first planet and F1 and F3 for the second planet. The Sun is placed in focal point F1. The two shaded sectors A1 and A2 have the same surface area and the time for planet 1 to cover segment A1 is equal to the time to cover segment A2. The total orbit times for planet 1 and planet 2 have a ratio .
Elizabeth's funeral cortège 1603, with banners of her royal ancestors
Elizabeth I cropped from The Pelican Portrait
Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611 Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611, shows the Twelve Apostles at the top. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. At the top, over the Holy Spirit in a form of a dove, is the Tetragrammaton "יהוה" ("YHWH"). The title page text reads: THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties speciall Comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings moſt Excellent Maiestie. ANNO DOM. 1611 . At bottom is "C. Boel ſecit in Richmont."
