Matfre Ermengau de Bézier, Le breviari d’amor

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

Matfre Ermengau de Bézier, Le breviari d’amor

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Matfre Ermengau de Bézier (13th-14th century)
Le breviari d'amor, 14th century
London, British Library, Ms. Royal 19.C.I., f. 50r

This extremely fine codex contains a wealth of illustrations depicting astronomical subjects inspired by Ptolemaic cosmology, revisited in a Christian light. Angels turn the sphere of the world.