Celestial diagram from Matfré Ermengau, Breviari d'Amor, Catalonia 14th century
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Augustin explains the Creation to Epicurus. (c. 1475). Illumination by Maître François.
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Sun and Moon from Vincent of Beauvais, Le Mirouer historial (French translation of Speculum historiale), Paris 1463
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The Zodiac and the planets from Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480
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6th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
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Japanese astronomical chart, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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Calculation of solar & lunar eclipses from: Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing, by al-Qazwini (14th c)
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An Islamic Astrological chart from the 10th Century AD
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Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610
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This pocket calendar from about 1400 was intended to be used daily by farmers and agricultural labourers
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Unknown Artist- Phenomenon in the Sky - The Solar Eclipse 1883
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Cygnus Aratea, with extracts from Hyginus’s Astronomica in the constellation figures - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 9th c
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Scorpio, Arab Manuscript, ca 1540
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