Celestial globe

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

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Celestial globe, 2nd century B.C. - 1st century A.D.
Paris, Kugel Collection

The constellations depicted on this silver globe are based on the iconographic tradition of Hyginus. This is one of the oldest extant depictions of the celestial sphere.