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 harmony of the spheres
The first observatories
New maps of the heavens
The universe-machine
The apotheosis of the heroes of the Astronomical Revolution
The path of the 1664-1665 comet
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