Hans Christoph Schissler the Younger, Mechanical celestial globe

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

Hans Christoph Schissler the Younger, Mechanical celestial globe

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Hans Christoph Schissler the Younger (1561-1652)
Mechanical celestial globe, Augsburg, ca. 1600
Private collection

This is the only known mechanical celestial globe by this craftsman. The silver-plated globe rests on the shoulders of a bronze Atlas of German workmanship.

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