From the bookshelves....part 1

Here are two images from the book Life Beyond Earth by Timothy Ferris. The top is an engraving from "Monthly Discussions of All Sorts of Books, by Several Friends, " from 1697. The bottom is from 1687 from "Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and the Sun" by Cyrano de Bergerac.
In a similar vein, here are two cosmological diagrams from the 1500's. These come from The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe, purchased at the incredible Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA. Also included is an illustration of one of Kepler's geometric conceptualizations.