Sandro Botticelli, St. Augustine in his studio

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

Sandro Botticelli, St. Augustine in his studio

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Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
St. Augustine in his studio, ca. 1480
Florence, Church of Ognissanti

This splendid fresco shows St. Augustine in a studio packed with objects referring to the mathematical sciences and to astronomy. The geocentric armillary sphere is given pride of place.