HST 340 History of Science Images and Diagrams
The following diagrams are provided for you to print out and bring to Florence.
These will provide you with good visual aids for many of the topics and
people we will be discussing.
The four elements of the ancient world and the representation of humans
as a microcosm of those elements (of the larger harmony of the universe
or macrocosm.
The ancient or Ptolemaic world view and a mechanism (the equant point)
designed to reconcile observed motions in the heavens with the ancient
world view.
Dante Aligheieri (1265-1321)'s Christian version of the Ptolemaic cosmos,
including heaven and hell.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and his Neo-Platonic view of the cosmos,
incorporating the Platonic Solids (a geometric representation of each of
the elements) into the structure of the universe.
Two of the three laws of planetary motion derived by Kepler.
Unifying the heavens and the earth: The Newtonian cosmos.
