From Astronomy by Gillet & Rolfe (1882)
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Astronomy
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The angel Ruh holding the celestial spheres, from Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini ‘s The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence
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Moon, painting by Julius Grimm, 1888
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From the 'Kometenbuch' of 1587
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Ptolemy's Handy Tables, intended for practical computation became the basis for later astronomical tables in Greek, Arabic, and Latin
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Aratea, with extracts from Hyginus’s Astronomica, depicted in the constellation the figure of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 9th century
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Cyprian Leowitz - Eclipses luminarium summa fide et accurata diligentia supputatae, Augsburg, 1555
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'Ballerina on top of the World' illustration from 1910
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15th century planisphere with constellations
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Creation of the World & Expulsion from Paradise - Giovanni di Paolo, 1445
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