Vincenzo de’ Rossi (attr.), Hercules with celestial sphere

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

Mechanical celestial and terrestrial globe

Vincenzo de’ Rossi (attr.), Hercules with celestial sphere

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Vincenzo de' Rossi (attr.) (1527-1587)
Hercules with celestial sphere, Florence, ca. 1570
Private collection

The constellations in this openwork globe, held up by a beautiful bronze Hercules, take as a model the engravings of François Demonget's celestial gores (ca. 1560).