Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi historia

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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Robert Fludd (1574-1637)
Utriusque Cosmi historia, Oppenheim, 1617-1621
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Pal. 1.8.3.5/I, vol. I, p. 90

Fludd's universe is a monochord tuned by the hand of God. Along the monochord the spheres of the Elements, the Ether (planets) and the Empireum (angelic hierarchies) are placed in hierarchical order.