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2 unusual facts about Levogyre


Levogyre

In art, The Levogyre is a 1974 painting by Paul Laffoley depicting a series of nested shells connected by gimbals.

In astronomy, the Levogyre is the long since discredited structure of the Universe proposed by ancient Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus: A series of nested crystalline spheres which contains fixed stars and moving planets which rotate around an immovable Earth with each sphere connected a randomly distributed series by gimbal-like axes.


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