Relief portraying Anaximander

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

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Relief portraying Anaximander, 1st century A.D.
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. 506

The philosopher Anaximander (4th century B.C.) considered that the Earth was suspended in the middle of the universe, devoid of any support and equidistant from the sphere of the fixed stars.