I mentioned a week ago, perhaps a little more, that I an idea struck: tell a story set in a universe where the Ptolemaic system were true, where Earth was the center of the universe around which everything–moon, sun, planets, stars–revolved. A silly idea, true.
I realized, though, that I really didn’t know quite how the system worked. Some online articles have been helpful, but I needed more. Recently several books have been recommended.
Music of the spheres, indeed. 🙂
We’ll see where this goes.
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Did you try this site?
http://www.geocentricity.com
It’s pretty scary when you realize that people take this shit seriously, but I’d imagine there’s a plethora of information there. 🙂
Cheers,
Geoff
There is such a novel, and it’s simply superb — “Celestial Matters”, by Richard Garfinkle.
I’ll have to look for that, thanks. 🙂
It’s interesting; I did tell a story set in a geocentric universe (my Doctor Who story, “The Spindle of Necessity”), but it had nothing in common, save the geocentricness, with the idea that I mused about here. I actually had a story idea in mind, and sketched out a one-page outline. But it never went anywhere.