Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica (pl. 5)

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

The committee for the reform of the calendar

De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis

Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blaviane

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica (pl. 5)

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

The Sun dominates the centre of this splendid plate illustrating the Copernican system. The only "update" consists of the addition, around Jupiter, of the four moons discovered by Galileo.