Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata

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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Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata

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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
Astronomić instauratć progymnasmata, Frankfurt, 1610
Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, MED 1247, pls. between pp. 8-9

This innovative work shows the geo-heliocentric planetary models for the Sun, the Moon and Saturn, along with a catalogue of 777 stars and their co-ordinates. It also has a portrait of Tycho Brahe.

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