Talk:Martianus Capella

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Capella's Model of the Solar System

The model of the solar system Capella describes in De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii et de septem Artibus liberalibus libri novem is not heliocentric. It is a geocentric model in which the epicycles of Mercury and Venus are centred on the sun, rather than points lying between the sun and the earth, as in the ptolemaic model. I can affirm this from having actually read Stahl, Johnson and Burge's English translation of the work. Any source which says otherwise is mistaken, so please do not miscorrect "geocentric model" back to the erroneous "heliocentric model". David Wilson 07:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It is a forerunner of the Tychonic system, where the earth is in the centre and all the planets are circling round the sun. It's a geo-heliocentric system. Eriugena is somewhere in-between. In his system Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter are circling round the sun. Macrobius is calling it the the "Egyptian system". Under this name it was known in the 16th and 17th century.--36.97.187.211 (talk) 17:25, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

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