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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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 Sun, 4-armed and sitting on a throne, two nimbi, two lions. Persian Manuscript, ca. late 17th /early18th century
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6th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
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The mathematics of stargazing, from René Descartes' 'Discourse on Meteorology', 1637
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A personification of the Four Winds from a medieval illuminated manuscript
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Unidentified Photographer - “Eclipse”, 1929
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