Donato Creti, Moon and Jupiter

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

Phase of the Moon, Phases of Venus, Aspect of Jupiter, Aspect of Saturn

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Donato Creti (1671-1749)
Moon and Jupiter, 1711
Rome, Pinacoteca Vaticana, inv. 40433 and 40437

These two pictures are part of a series of small paintings of the stars and planets which Creti painted as they appear through a telescope. The paintings record Galileo's discoveries.