• 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
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An alternative to Ptolemy

Martianus Capella’s celestial vault

Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 9

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 2

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 15

Andreas Cellarius, Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica - pl. 20

Planispheric projection of the celestial sphere