Anonymous, Portrait of Wilhelm Schickart

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

The committee for the reform of the calendar

De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis

Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blaviane

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Anonymous
Portrait of Wilhelm Schickart, 1632
Tübingen, Bildnissammlung im Senatsaal Universität Tübingen

The successor of Mästlin, Kepler's teacher, in the chair of astronomy at Tübingen, Schickart (1592-1635) is shown holding a small Copernican mechanical planetarium. This is the oldest painted depiction of the Copernican system.