Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, Atlas coelestis

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

Louis XIV visits the Académie des Sciences

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, Atlas coelestis

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Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750)
Atlas cœlestis, Nuremberg, 1742
Milan, Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Astronomia, 18ORI.3.B, pl. XIX

The four margins of this table showing the constellations in the southern hemisphere in 1731, contain drawings of the astronomical observatories of Greenwich (1666), Copenhagen (1642), Kassel (1714) and Berlin (1711).