Ptolemic System gullibility Sir David Gill was elected

Sir David Gill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883

dressed as a young nursemaid

Herne Hill

View of St James's Park and Buckingham Palace

Ptolemic System gullibility Sir David Gill was electedPtolemic 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 From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.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