Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

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

Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

Planispheric projection of the celestial sphere

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 2

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Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)
Atlas cœlestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. 5._.81, pl. 2

Planimetric view of the Ptolemaic system in simplified form, surrounded by the fixed stars with the region of the elements (earth, water, air and fire) in the centre. The two figures at the bottom are probably meant to represent Ptolemy (on the right) and Aristotle.