Beweging van de Zon ten opzichte van de Aarde 1706

Sébastien Leclerc I created this drawing, "Movement of the Sun in Relation to the Earth", sometime between 1637 and 1714. It's a scientific rendering, but it resonates with ancient symbols of the cosmos. Consider the central Earth and the radiant Sun—motifs echoing those found in ancient Egyptian art, where the Sun God Ra was a life-giver, a symbol of power and renewal. Here, the relationship is framed by the geometry of the spheres, a common thread connecting medieval cosmological diagrams to Renaissance art, where mathematical harmony was seen as divine order. This pursuit of cosmic order, however, is far from linear. It resurfaces in the theosophical diagrams of the 19th century, and in abstract art, illustrating our unending quest to capture the structure of the universe. This symbolic language speaks to a collective memory, echoing our perpetual search for meaning in the skies.