Apollo-Helios with sphere

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

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Apollo-Helios with sphere, 1st century A.D.
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, inv. 8819

Apollo-Helios wearing a cloak, his head radiate and girt by a halo, holds a sphere in his left hand. In his right hand he grips a riding whip, an allusion to his chariot-driving skills and to his duties as guardian of Admetus' herd.