Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

Maps of the heavens in gnomonic projection

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 27

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Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)
Atlas cœlestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. 5._.81, plate 27

This is the most spectacular table in the entire Atlas, showing the globe of the Earth and the celestial sphere from outside.