The stars and the human temperament

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

Book of the constellations and fixed stars

Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

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The stars and the human temperament
S. Battaglia and G. Miglietta

This exhibit provides a visual representation of the theory establishing correlations between the planets and the human temperament. The influence of the four celestial bodies determines the four types of human character. This theory was enormously popular in the Islamic world.