Date: 23 August 2019 [UPDATE: A full Solar System model is now available that you can view, animated using the techniques described in this post! See Ptolemy’s cosmos, to scale.] You will recall my previous blog post that tried to build the necessary scaffolding for me to finally write up my 2017 PyCon Ireland keynote on the structure of the Medieval universe. It ran into several problems with matplotlib animations — but, having written that post, I realized that the problem ran deeper. How coul...