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    1. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      Arabic Star Lists, c.1065 Earliest comp of Ptolemy’s constellations codified in 9th c, after published in Arabicpic.twitter.com/NassudY5ZX

      11 replies 251 retweets 703 likes
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    2. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      地獄草紙, A Buddhist Vision of Hell, Japanese Handscroll, 12th Century, Japan.pic.twitter.com/DUlaQCUGuO

      1 reply 15 retweets 59 likes
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    3. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      Images from The Book of Fixed Stars, an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi around 964.pic.twitter.com/lGuChIHDcW

      1 reply 27 retweets 86 likes
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    4. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      The Sun and the Moon, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Turkey 16th c CEpic.twitter.com/FOFKXVsyzv

      3 replies 15 retweets 64 likes
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    5. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      The Sun, 4-armed and sitting on a throne, two nimbi, two lions. Persian Manuscript, ca. late 17th /early18th centurypic.twitter.com/r5HRVjlXzP

      2 replies 14 retweets 46 likes
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    6. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      The mathematics of stargazing, from René Descartes' 'Discourse on Meteorology', 1637 (geometry of stargazing?)pic.twitter.com/SNIgfbBLQl

      3 replies 42 retweets 114 likes
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    7. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      Eclipse, from Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, an Arabic manuscript dating from the late 14th c CEpic.twitter.com/wh1pkvP2uK

      1 reply 20 retweets 67 likes
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    8. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      19th century watercolor interpretation of the Pre-Columbian Toltec calendar, ca. 900-1200 CEpic.twitter.com/badYPFfrFG

      1 reply 20 retweets 74 likes
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    9. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      Pages from an Arabic 17th century CE manuscript which, sets out instructions for the practical uses of an astrolabepic.twitter.com/L0hP9sbmSa

      1 reply 20 retweets 61 likes
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    10. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      Ptolemy's Handy Tables, 9th C. Map of the Constellations showing the northern part of the zodiacpic.twitter.com/3uC4aTsCI3

      1 reply 13 retweets 39 likes
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      Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

      A personification of the Four Winds from a medieval illuminated manuscriptpic.twitter.com/G4cQF0EMLm

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        2. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

          6th century CE copy of an ancient Persian cosmological mappic.twitter.com/9cvEjUz7rO

          1 reply 20 retweets 68 likes
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        3. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

          Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730 The constellation Orionpic.twitter.com/kfYBk5GS9W

          2 replies 21 retweets 78 likes
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        4. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

          Galileo Galilei from the series of sunspot drawings:pic.twitter.com/aVrOTliFHn

          2 replies 25 retweets 88 likes
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        5. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

          Galileo’s sketches from Sidereus Nuncius (1610)pic.twitter.com/znG4zOiku9

          1 reply 17 retweets 90 likes
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        6. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 22 May 2018

          Taurus - ‘Abd al-Rahmân al-Sûfî, Kitâb suwar al-kawâkib althâbita, 3rd quarter of the 13th centurypic.twitter.com/LdvKKDYAGN

          1 reply 20 retweets 76 likes
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        7. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Diagram of an eclipse of the sun, with the moon casting a shadow cone, c. 1260pic.twitter.com/m5eMsmderL

          1 reply 9 retweets 40 likes
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        8. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Ansel Adams – Eclipse, Cantonville, California, 1925pic.twitter.com/4M5IV2abz4

          2 replies 30 retweets 100 likes
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        9. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Calculation of solar and lunar eclipses from: Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing, by al-Qazwini (14th century)pic.twitter.com/OuJjffCldg

          1 reply 19 retweets 55 likes
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        10. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          The Solar Eclipse on Wednesday April 17th, 1912, Amsterdampic.twitter.com/JctS5kgFpa

          3 replies 19 retweets 54 likes
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        11. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Photo of 1999 August 11 solar eclipse taken from the Mir space station. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070610.html …pic.twitter.com/dyFs06WOeN

          1 reply 16 retweets 47 likes
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        12. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Paul and Prosper Henry, "A Section of the Constellation Cygnus (August 13, 1885)"; albumen silver print [1885]pic.twitter.com/WNVI9wdE5x

          1 reply 11 retweets 65 likes
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        13. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          The first known photograph of a comet. Donati’s Comet, taken at Harvard College Observatory in 1858.pic.twitter.com/PRlS0vvjKg

          4 replies 67 retweets 170 likes
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        14. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Formation of the crescent of the Moon, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī, Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (Wonders of creation).17th cpic.twitter.com/cv5i4P6cwa

          1 reply 6 retweets 27 likes
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        15. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Zakarīyā Ibn-Muḥammad al Qazwīnī, Heavens and eclipses, Kitab al-Bulhan. Kitāb Aǧāʾib al-maḫlūqāt wa-ġarāʾib al-mauǧūdāt, c. 1750-1770 CEpic.twitter.com/2uUjqP96B7

          1 reply 12 retweets 41 likes
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        16. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Guardian of the Kingdom of God From a copy of the Persian version of Qazwini’s The marvels of creation and the oddities of existence, 1500spic.twitter.com/EbD2C4ud3f

          1 reply 19 retweets 83 likes
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        17. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610pic.twitter.com/vJESXcwFfz

          3 replies 73 retweets 242 likes
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        18. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 23 May 2018

          Total phase of the lunar eclipse of Sept. 3, 1895. The astrophysical journal. December 1895pic.twitter.com/ugZIZzMIx3

          1 reply 9 retweets 62 likes
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        19. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 24 May 2018

          The surface of the moon seen from Lunar Orbiter 3, 1967pic.twitter.com/ebrDMDZvf3

          1 reply 21 retweets 74 likes
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        20. Rabih Alameddine‏ @rabihalameddine 24 May 2018

          Total Lunar Eclipse of January 31, 2018 Photographer: Petr Horálek Lamai Beach on Ko Samui Island, Thailandpic.twitter.com/XumC4fxXF7

          0 replies 11 retweets 53 likes
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