Richard Glynne, Armillary sphere-orrery

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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Richard Glynne (18th century)
Armillary sphere-orrery, ca. 1720
Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 57605

This instrument is a combination of an armillary sphere and a new kind of planetarium called an orrery. It demonstrates the structure of the Copernican universe.