Illustration of Urania, the muse of astronomy, weighing and comparing systems of the Solar System. She is depicted giving greater weight to Tycho Brahe's system (right) than to that of Copernicus (left). Ptolemy's system is discarded at her feet. From 'Popular Astronomy' by Camille Flammarion (1880).

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