1. Pierre Duhem, medieval cosmology and the scope of the present study
2. The sources of cosmology in the late Middle Ages
3. The social and institutional matrix of scholastic cosmology
4. Is the world eternal, without beginning or end?
5. The creation of the world
6. The finitude, shape, and place of the world
7. The perfection of the world
8. The possibility of other worlds
9. Extracosmic void space
10. The incorruptibility of the celestial region
12. On celestial matter: Can it exist in a changeless state?
13. The mobile celestial orbs: concentrics, eccentrics, and epicycles
14. Are the heavens composed of hard orbs or a fluid substance?
15. The immobile orb of the cosmos: the empyrean heaven
17. The properties and qualities of celestial bodies, and the dimensions of the world
18. On celestial motions and their causes
19. The influence of the celestial region on the terrestrial
20. The earth and its cosmic relations: size, centrality, shape, and immobility
Conclusion: Five centuries of scholastic cosmology
Appendix I: Catalog of Questions on Medieval Cosmology, 1200-1687
Appendix II: The anatomy of medieval cosmology
the significance of the "Catalog of Questions" in Appendix I.
