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
Star myths
Philosophers and the cosmos
The precession of the equinoxes
Aratus’
Phænomena
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Bust of Aristotle
, ca. 2
nd
century
Florence, Uffizi Gallery, inv. 9
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Aristotle
