Erasmus Habermel, Sextant

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

Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

The committee for the reform of the calendar

De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis

Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blaviane

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Erasmus Habermel (ca. 1538-1606)
Sextant, 1600
Prague, Národní Technické Muzeum, inv. 24551

This instrument was made by a craftsman who worked for Tycho Brahe. It is a reinterpretation on a smaller scale of the triangular astronomical sextant for two observers built by Tycho Brahe in 1582.