Images from The Book of Fixed Stars, an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi around 964.
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Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730.
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A longer list of fixed stars!
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Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730. 1
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Illustrations from the Persian astronomer Al-Ṣūfī's Kitāb al-Kawākib al-Thābitah, i.e. Book of the Fixed Stars. Draco
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The constellation Orion from book of Fixed Stars
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