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'The sun showing spots, faculae, chromosphere, and prominences' - illustration from "The Story of the Sun" by Robert Stawell Ball (London, 1893); from an original drawing by Trouvelot @royalsociety https://t.co/510Fa3FKbI
"The Moon" (1928) by Brazilian artist, Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral (1886-1973); "I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt." @MuseumModernArt https://t.co/HWF2F1hOY6
"Stellatum Planisphaerium" - handcolored engraving by Louis Vlasblom and Johannes van Keulen, Netherlands, c. 1675; a double hemisphere planisphere with additional illustrations of the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems @AdlerPlanet https://t.co/aQjPW3fQvL
The constellation of Cygnus from a copy of al-Sufi's Tables of the Fixed Stars, from Gujarat, India, 1643/4 @GallicaBnF https://t.co/muPKcX4qgK
"Starry Night" (1893) by Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944); this night landscape represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo in Norway, where Edvard Munch spent his summers from the 1880s onward @GettyMuseum https://t.co/y4CoP13KEE
Complete pack of 52 playing-cards plus title and frontispiece cards for teaching astronomy; hand-colored etchings published by Johann Philipp Andreæ, Nuremberg, 1719 @britishmuseum https://t.co/s7WAK1Ax2q
Takatsu (Woman and Two Men Enjoying a View from a Building on a Hill), 1820s; color woodblock print by Japanese artist, Sōya @artsmia https://t.co/FIWNwuCdcd
"Total Eclipse" (c. 1946) by Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991); @harvartmuseums https://t.co/BCa1J5bMKN; a pitch-black moon shields the sun, and a man and woman are driven into a state of panic by witnessing the strange cosmic event; see @PUArtMuseum https://t.co/OE25hQBDzN
13th-century Turkish miniature depicting Aristotle instructing students in the use of the astrolabe; Topkapi Palace Museum @topkapi_sarayi; via https://t.co/Zq1Ye2OHjK
"A mass of innumerable stars: the telescope, from the uncertain patent to Galileo's and Kepler's discoveries" by @museogalileo, via https://t.co/Ncu4xMzU3y