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
The Christian universe
God embraces the universe
Clocks and astrolabes
De Dondi’s Astrarium
Laboratorio Multimedia MeLa Università IUAV di Venezia
Malvina Borgherini, Emanuele Garbin with Rita El Asmar
