Sundial

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

Hyginus’ De Astronomia
Bianchini’s planisphere
Ptolemy: the geometry of the spheres
Instruments, the measure of time, and calendars
An alternative to Ptolemy

Cupid with sphere

Armillary sphere

Sundial

Plate with signs of the zodiac and planets

Portable vertical sundial

Farmer’s calendar

Sundial

Zoom

Sundial, 1st century A.D.
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, inv. 71257

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