Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 25, 2017A longer list of fixed stars!Quote TweetRabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine · Jan 9, 2015Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730. 11722
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 25, 2017Illustrations from the Persian astronomer Al-Ṣūfī's Kitāb al-Kawākib al-Thābitah, i.e. Book of the Fixed Stars. Draco13189
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 25, 2017The Sun and the Moon, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Turkey 16th c CE11130
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 25, 2017The Sun, 4-armed and sitting on a throne, two nimbi, two lions. Persian Manuscript, ca. late 17th /early18th century139124
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 25, 20176th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map11561
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 26, 2017The mathematics of stargazing, from René Descartes' 'Discourse on Meteorology', 163713888
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 26, 2017A personification of the Four Winds from a medieval illuminated manuscript21947
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 26, 2017Ptolemy's Handy Tables, 9th C. Map of the Constellations showing the northern part of the zodiac11740
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddineReplying to @rabihalameddinePlanets in a fluid medium, w/0 solid spheres G. Beati, Sphaera Triplex Artificialis, Elementaris, ac Caelestis, 166212:37 AM · Jul 26, 2017·Twitter Web Client15 Retweets60 Likes
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·Jul 26, 2017Replying to @rabihalameddineEclipse, from Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, an Arabic manuscript dating from the late 14th c CE22559