Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE 1
3. CONTENTS 5
4. INTRODUCTION 5
5. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ASTRARIUM 5
6. THE INVENTOR 11
7. DESCRIPTION OF THE ASTRARIUM 14
8. NAMING OF THE MASTERPIECE 15
9. THE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK OF JACOPO DE' DONDI 17
10. FOURTEENTH-CENTURY RECORDS 19
11. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY 21
12. THE ASTRARIUM IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 37
13. MANUSCRIPTS OF THE ASTRARIUM 40
14. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DOCUMENTATION 43
15. NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVIVAL OF INTEREST 44
16. TWENTIETH-CENTURY STUDIES 45
17. MODERN MODELS OF THE ASTRARIUM 48
18. APPENDIX
19. I. ORIGINAL TEXTS 50
20. II. BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 54
21. III. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF EVENTS AND DOCUMENTS 59
22. IV. THE RULERS OF MILAN 59
23. V. CHRONOLOGY OF CLOCKWORK 62
24. VI. SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 63
25. INDEX 67