• 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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Digital Library

Published works displayed in the exhibition

• Johann Bayer, Uranometria
• Willem Jansz Blaeu, Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blaviane
• Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata
• Tycho Brahe, De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
• Chérubin d’Orléans, La Dioptrique Oculaire
• Niccolò Copernico, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Vincenzo Coronelli, Epitome cosmografica
• Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius
• Galileo Galilei, Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari
• Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore
• Galileo Galilei, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
• Johannes Hevelius, Selenographia
• Johannes Kepler, Tabulae Rudolphinae
• Ottavio Pisani, Astrologia, seu motus et loca sidereum
• Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita, Oculus Enoch et Eliae
• Giovanni Battista Riccioli S.J., Almagestum novum

Books of general interest:

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