Visual Chronology of Cosmologies, Part II

JF Ptak Science Books  Post 1182

This is a continuation of an earlier post here offering a chronology of cosmologies.  This brings the total number of images to 81, a little more than half-way to the planned 150-item list.  I'll be folding them together into one file shortly. Enjoy.

Egyptian night sky.

Egyptian Cosmos

Ancient Japanese cosmogram.

Ancient Mexican cosmogram.

Incan cosmogram.

Hindu cosmogram.

Hopi Tunwup, the Sky God.

Navaho cosmology

Navaho Cosmos

600-900 ACE

Chinese celestial figures.

1275

1275

14th Century

1487

Chrisrian Anima Mundi.

The Children of Adam.

1496

The planets and the four elements, represented in naive form, in woodcut, in Philippe de Mantegat Judicium cum tractibus planetarii, and published in Milan in 1496.

1515

1519

Alboul Hassan Ali, Praeclarissimus in Juditijs Astronrum, printed in Venice, 1519, showing an arablian astrologer calculating and constructing a celestial sphere.

1524

Thannstetter, Wiener Praktik, published in Vienna, 1524. Showing farmers in their fields working under the not-very-watchful and distracted gazes of the seven planets.

1530

  

 
1533  Introductio geographica by Petrus Apianus, Ingolstadt, 1533

1534

Luther Bible

1538

Sebastian Munster, Organum Uranicum, printed in Basle in 1536.

1596

Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1596

1636

Athanasius Kircher

1636

  

1660

 

 

Persian cosmoloigcal map as part of astrolabe

1659

Basile Velntine's L'Azoth des Philosophes, publshed in Paris, 1659.

1661 

Andreas Cellarius, Corporum Coelestium Magnitudines (Celestial map), 1661

1675

Louis Vlasbloem & Johannes Van Keulen,  Stellatum Planisphaerium, 1675.

A. Kircher, Arithmologia

1677

 The All-Wise Doorkeeper, Musaeum Hermeticum, 1677.

1705

H. Van Loon, for L’Atlas Curieux by Nicolas de Fer, Paris: 1700-05

1822

Alexander Jamieson:  Stereographic Projection of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere

1850

 Andriveau-Goujon:  Cosmographie Generale