Copernican Model of our Solar System dictated by Golden Ratio

In honor of what would have been Copernicus' 540th birthday, I reworked my cover design I did for the Lantern Journal last summer of a Copernican model of our solar system designed along the Golden Scale.

There is a full exegesis elsewhere, but briefly, each "tooth" in the orbital "cogs" of the planets represents approximately one day (24 hours), and each "thick dash" (as seen in the rotations of Jupiter and Saturn) represent approximately one earth year (365 days). Everything falls along the golden scale of 1.618:1 (from the size of the planets to the size of their orbits). The layout of the the planets is dictated by a golden spiral beginning from the center of the plane and by the classical canons of page construction.

Full image as attachment. Full exegesis on request.

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