The Sun and the Moon, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Turkey 16th c CE
Conversation
The Sun, 4-armed and sitting on a throne, two nimbi, two lions. Persian Manuscript, ca. late 17th /early18th century
1
39
124
6th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
1
15
61
The mathematics of stargazing, from René Descartes' 'Discourse on Meteorology', 1637
1
38
88
A personification of the Four Winds from a medieval illuminated manuscript
2
19
47
Unidentified Photographer - “Eclipse”, 1929
2
34
88
Ptolemy's Handy Tables, 9th C. Map of the Constellations showing the northern part of the zodiac
1
17
40
Planets in a fluid medium, w/0 solid spheres
G. Beati, Sphaera Triplex Artificialis, Elementaris, ac Caelestis, 1662
1
15
60
Eclipse, from Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, an Arabic manuscript dating from the late 14th c CE
2
25
59
Zakarīyā Ibn-Muḥammad al Qazwīnī, Heavens and eclipses, Kitab al-Bulhan. Kitāb Aǧāʾib al-maḫlūqāt wa-ġarāʾib al-mauǧūdāt, c. 1750-1770 CE
1
9
41
Replying to
The Jagiellonian Clock, incorporating the Jagiellonian Globe, c.1510
Replying to
Pages from an Arabic 17th century CE manuscript which, sets out instructions for the practical uses of an astrolabe
3
33
76
19th century watercolor interpretation of the Pre-Columbian Toltec calendar, ca. 900-1200 CE
29
67
