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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Ptolemy's Handy Tables, 9th C. Map of the Constellations showing the northern part of the zodiac
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Planets in a fluid medium, w/0 solid spheres
G. Beati, Sphaera Triplex Artificialis, Elementaris, ac Caelestis, 1662
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Eclipse, from Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, an Arabic manuscript dating from the late 14th c CE
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Zakarīyā Ibn-Muḥammad al Qazwīnī, Heavens and eclipses, Kitab al-Bulhan. Kitāb Aǧāʾib al-maḫlūqāt wa-ġarāʾib al-mauǧūdāt, c. 1750-1770 CE
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The Jagiellonian Clock, incorporating the Jagiellonian Globe, c.1510
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Pages from an Arabic 17th century CE manuscript which, sets out instructions for the practical uses of an astrolabe
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