(MUGGLETONIAN SPHERES) Frost Isaac Group of 6 engraved plate

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(MUGGLETONIAN SPHERES.) Frost, Isaac. Group of 6 engraved plates representing the geocentric Muggletonian astronomical theory. Plates 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, and 10; from Frost's Two System of Astronomy, on oblong 4to sheets; printed using oil pigments. London, circa 1846

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Peculiar astronomical representations of the geocentric Muggletonian universe. The Muggletonians were a small religious sect founded by Lodowick Muggleton and John Reeves in the 1650s. The sect continued to have a haphazard existence through Victorian times. Isaac Frost who prepared the plans for the engravings, was a member of the sect and is responsible for spherically illustrating the Muggletonian theories.