Plate with signs of the zodiac and planets

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

Plate with signs of the zodiac and planets

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Plate with signs of the zodiac and planets
Cast from the original, ca. 1930
Rome, Museo della Civiltà Romana, inv. M.C.R. n. 2898

Lunar astrological calendar showing, at the top, the busts of seven heavenly bodies connected with the days of the week: Saturn, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus. In the centre, we see a circumference divided into 12 parts, each with one of the signs of the zodiac depicted with the initial of its Latin name.