Chapter VI
For a long time in the West, astronomy was based on the Ptolemaic view of the solar
system (second century Greek astronomer). In this view, the earth was the unmoving
center of the universe and all planets circled around it (which is true of course looking
from the standpoint of the observer). In anthroposophy, this Ptolemaic point of view is still
used as a map to describe the evolution of the soul.Fig. 6.15 Solar System according to Ptolemy