Albrecht Dürer, Maps of the northern and southern skies

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

Mechanical celestial and terrestrial globe

Albrecht Dürer, Maps of the northern and southern skies

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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Maps of the northern and southern skies, 1515
Florence, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, 5069-5070 st. sc.

These splendid woodcuts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres were to become the model for numerous 16th century celestial globes and maps of the heavens.