Johann Schöner, 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

Mechanical celestial and terrestrial globe

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Johann Schöner (1477-1547)
Celestial globe, Nuremberg, ca. 1533
London, Royal Astronomical Society (on deposit at the Science Museum, London, inv. 1910-249)

This is the oldest printed celestial globe we know of. The constellations are those known after Ptolemy, with their names in Latin, while the names of the individual stars are mostly in Arabic.