Hildegard of Bingen, Liber divinorum operum

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

Hildegard of Bingen, Liber divinorum operum

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Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Liber divinorum operum, 13th century
Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, Ms. 1942, f. 9r

The ten entrancing visions in this beautiful codex of St. Hildegard, a unique figure in medieval mysticism, culminate in this illustration of man as the "microcosm" in the centre of the celestial spheres.