Sébastien Leclerc, Louis XIV visits the Académie des Sciences

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

Louis XIV visits the Académie des Sciences

Sébastien Leclerc, Louis XIV visits the Académie des Sciences

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Sébastien Leclerc (1673-1714)
Louis XIV visits the Académie des Sciences, 1671
Paris, Observatoire de Paris, inv. I.110

This picture shows the Roi Soleil visiting the Académie des Sciences. In the background we can see the building of the Paris Observatory (on which work began in 1667).