Anonymous, Mechanical celestial and terrestrial 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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Mechanical celestial and terrestrial globe, France?, 16th century
Venice, Museo Correr, inv. Cl. XXIX, 31

This fine openwork celestial sphere faithfully reproduces Dürer's engravings of the southern and northern hemispheres. A complex clockwork mechanism inside the terrestrial globe drives the celestial sphere's movement.