A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery

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

A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery

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A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, ca. 1766
Vienna, Private collection

A contemporary copy of a famous painting by Joseph Wright (1734-1797), the picture shows a natural philosopher giving a lecture to adults and children using a large planetarium orrery.