Pierre de Fobis, Clockwork armillary spher

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

Pierre de Fobis, Clockwork armillary spher

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Pierre de Fobis (ca. 1507-ca. 1580)
Clockwork armillary sphere, Lyons, 1540-1550
Paris, Collection Kugel

This is one of the most important astronomical clocks of the entire Renaissance. The sphere's countless functions (measuring time, illustrating planetary motion and so on) are driven by an extraordinarily complex mechanism. The engravings on the sphere are also of extremely fine quality.