Sumerian Star Map or Planisphere, ca 650 BCE
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Illustration from Astronomic Picture Atlas by Ludwig Preyßinger (Germany, 1851)
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Hans Baldung Grien - Chart of the Signs of the Zodiac with Venus, Cupid, and a Saint. N.d
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14/15th cent, Egyptian astrological ms by a Persian artist. Reproduced from 9th cent persian 'Kitâb al-Mawalid'
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Hildegard von Bingen - The Six Days of Creation
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6th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
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Celestial diagram from Matfré Ermengau, Breviari d'Amor, Catalonia 14th century
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The Sun, 4-armed and sitting on a throne, two nimbi, two lions. Persian Manuscript, ca. late 17th /early18th century
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The Sun and the Moon, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Turkey 16th c CE
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The constellation Orion from an Arabic manuscript
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Blue Byzantine mosaic representing the night sky in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy. 5th cent CE
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Galileo Galilei
The Pleiades from 'Sidereus Nuncius' (Starry Messenger), 1610
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Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610
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