Arabic Star Lists, c. 1065
Earliest compilation of Ptolemy’s constellations, codified only in the 9th c., after it was published in Arabic
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Floor Mosaic from Hisham's Palace, Jericho, 8th century CE
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Andreas Gursky, Kathedrale 1, 2007, c-print, mounted on Plexiglass; Size: 215 x 311 cm. (84.6 x 122.4)
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The Book of Kells, The first page of the Gospel of John. Dublin, c.800
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Mar Gewargis /Mar Girgis (St. George) and the dragon. from an Assyrian Christian manuscript, 18th century
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Marc Bourlier
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Noah’s Ark from the Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin, Spain or France 12th century
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Repentance, depicted in a 15th cent Russian Orthodox painting, possibly from a Siberian cathedral, featuring Jonah and the Whale
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Saint Anne / Anna, Faras cathedral, Lower Nubia, ca. 8th century
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Saint Catherine Crowned by Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1520
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Detail of the coral from The Madonna della Vittoria by Andrea Mantegna, 1496
Sandro Botticelli, Scenes from Dante’s ‘Paradiso’ featuring Dante and Beatrice in Paradise, c. 1480-1495
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Bats, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Baghdad, 790 AH, 1388 CE
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Terracotta ‘Piggy Bank’, 14th-15th century Java, Majapahit Dynasty
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Mesopotamian Lapis Amulet in the shape of a Frog, ca. 3500 BCE - 2500 BCE
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Chess Problems, late 1300s, from the Book of Chess Problems. Northern France
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Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730
The constellation Orion
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