John of Holywood, Tractato de la spera

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

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John of Holywood (13th century)
Tractato de la spera, 14th century
Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ms. Ricc. 2425, ff. 35v-36r

A translation into Italian of John of Holywood's treatise on cosmology. This clear and simple compilation summarises Ptolemy's Almagest. On folio 35v, the sphere of the world with the Eighth Heaven.