Roman celestial globe

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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Roman celestial globe, 2nd century A.D.
Replica of the original
Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, inv. 42695D

This globe shows the 48 constellations known to the ancients, plus the circles of the solstices and of the equinoxes. It also has the oldest known representation of the Milky Way.