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Diagrams showing aspects of transit of Venus over Sun's disc, James Ferguson's "Astronomy", 1756-1809 @AdlerPlanet.
Lunar phases in 'Summa philosophica quattor in partes distributa', by Gabriel Thibauld, 1639-41 @BeineckeLibrary.
Google honours Beatrice Tinsley, one of New Zealand's most gifted astronomers https://t.co/Hyi3LK1r7h via @smh
Aberration of light compared to man running in rain in Alexander Johnston's, Atlas of Astronomy, 1855 @LindaHall_org
Collection of astronomical instruments, celestial charts, & a world map by James Ferguson, c. 1769 @librarycongress.
Hand-painted manuscript globe of Mars, by Emmy Ingeborg Brun, Denmark, 1909 @NMMGreenwich http://t.co/e3fJwAmtxg
Galileo presents his telescope to the Venetian Senate by Luigi Sabatelli, 1840 @ Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.
“Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe!” Propaganda Posters from Soviet Space Race (1958-63) http://t.co/9sopq1oD80
Picture Book of Astronomy - written by Jerome S. Meyer, illustrated by Richard Floethe, 1945. http://t.co/wj7PNk5juk