Anonymous, Celestial globe

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

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Anonymous
Celestial globe, Milan and Prague, ca. 1600
Paris, Collection Kugel

The author has managed to engrave the 48 Ptolemaic constellations on the tiny surface of this quartz globe, based on the model of Dürer's maps of the heavens.