Al-Quazwini, The wonders of creation

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

Book of the constellations and fixed stars

Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

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Al-Quazwīnī (ca. 1203-1283)
The wonders of creation, 16th century
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Orientali 45, f. 17v

This encyclopćdia, which contains a lengthy section devoted to cosmography, enjoyed wide circulation in the Islamic world. The compiler referred back to the Greek authors, in particular to Aristotle and Ptolemy. At folio 17v, the configurations of the Sun, Earth and Moon that give rise to eclipses.