Michael Scot, Introductorium maius in astronomiam

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

Michael Scot, Introductorium maius in astronomiam

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Michael Scot (ca. 1175-1235/37)
Introductorium maius in astronomiam, 15th century
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XXII,24, ff. 30vab-31rab

An encyclopćdic work recording new information that emerged from the translation of Arabic and Greek scientific and hermetic works in Toledo around the middle of the 12th century.