Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Arabic Star Lists, c.1065 Earliest comp of Ptolemy’s constellations codified in 9th c, after published in Arabic11278695
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018地獄草紙, A Buddhist Vision of Hell, Japanese Handscroll, 12th Century, Japan.11758
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Images from The Book of Fixed Stars, an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi around 964.12886
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018The Sun and the Moon, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Turkey 16th c CE31663
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018The Sun, 4-armed and sitting on a throne, two nimbi, two lions. Persian Manuscript, ca. late 17th /early18th century21446
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018The mathematics of stargazing, from René Descartes' 'Discourse on Meteorology', 1637 (geometry of stargazing?)344113
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddineEclipse, from Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, an Arabic manuscript dating from the late 14th c CE10:11 PM · May 22, 2018·Twitter Web Client20 Retweets67 Likes
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Replying to @rabihalameddine19th century watercolor interpretation of the Pre-Columbian Toltec calendar, ca. 900-1200 CE12074
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Pages from an Arabic 17th century CE manuscript which, sets out instructions for the practical uses of an astrolabe12161
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Ptolemy's Handy Tables, 9th C. Map of the Constellations showing the northern part of the zodiac11439
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018A personification of the Four Winds from a medieval illuminated manuscript21650
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 20186th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map12068
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730 The constellation Orion22176
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Galileo Galilei from the series of sunspot drawings:22489
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 22, 2018Taurus - ‘Abd al-Rahmân al-Sûfî, Kitâb suwar al-kawâkib althâbita, 3rd quarter of the 13th century12077
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018Diagram of an eclipse of the sun, with the moon casting a shadow cone, c. 12601940
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018Ansel Adams – Eclipse, Cantonville, California, 192523298
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018Calculation of solar and lunar eclipses from: Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing, by al-Qazwini (14th century)11955
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018The Solar Eclipse on Wednesday April 17th, 1912, AmsterdamGIF32054
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018Photo of 1999 August 11 solar eclipse taken from the Mir space station. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070610.html…11747
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018Paul and Prosper Henry, "A Section of the Constellation Cygnus (August 13, 1885)"; albumen silver print [1885]11265
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 23, 2018The first known photograph of a comet. Donati’s Comet, taken at Harvard College Observatory in 1858.466169
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 24, 2018Formation of the crescent of the Moon, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī, Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (Wonders of creation).17th c1627
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 24, 2018Zakarīyā Ibn-Muḥammad al Qazwīnī, Heavens and eclipses, Kitab al-Bulhan. Kitāb Aǧāʾib al-maḫlūqāt wa-ġarāʾib al-mauǧūdāt, c. 1750-1770 CE11241
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 24, 2018Guardian of the Kingdom of God From a copy of the Persian version of Qazwini’s The marvels of creation and the oddities of existence, 1500s11983
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 24, 2018Total phase of the lunar eclipse of Sept. 3, 1895. The astrophysical journal. December 18951963
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 25, 2018The surface of the moon seen from Lunar Orbiter 3, 196712174
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine·May 25, 2018Total Lunar Eclipse of January 31, 2018 Photographer: Petr Horálek Lamai Beach on Ko Samui Island, Thailand1152