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

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 23

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Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)
Atlas cœlestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. 5._.81, pl. 23

An attempt to replace the names of classical constellations with those of figures from the Old and New Testaments. The signs of the zodiac are replaced with the names of the 12 Apostles. Christ is the Sun, while the Virgin Mary is identified with the Moon.