Antonio Lupicini, Geocentric armillary spheres

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

Antonio Lupicini, Geocentric armillary spheres

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Antonio Lupicini (ca. 1530-ca. 1598)
Geocentric armillary spheres, Florence, ca. 1570-1574
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, inv. beni art. 14-17

These four splendid spheres were made for Cosimo I de' Medici by one of his most highly skilled craftsmen. They show the movements of the five planets as well as those of the Sun, the Moon and the sphere of fixed stars.