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. 20

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Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)
Atlas cœlestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. 5._.81, plate 20

The Moon's phases are illustrated in the large central diagram: on the right, 12 discs show its waxing and waning phases; on the left, we see its 36 successive positions in the course of a full cycle.