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Theodolite joined to book describing its construction & use, w/ compass & sundial; Albrecht & Bumel, Nuremberg, 1625 https://t.co/NwRD3vhKPZ
Aquarius in 18thC copy of al-Sufi's Catalog of the Fixed Stars, from either Egypt or Turkey; at #Mandragore @laBnF https://t.co/u6gEmGZ4vw
Tellurium by William Jones, England, 1794 @TECHNOSEUM https://t.co/ZYs0GB25d8
Great nebula in Orion, with adjacent stars, photographed by George Blakslee, 1931 @YerkesObservato; photograph https://t.co/6Y1PLN9X4Q
The Windsor astronomers (George III & Queen Charlotte) making observations...comets (satirical print), British, 1791 https://t.co/V9TkiMqVvW
Plates in "Astronomical engravings of the moon, planets, etc." (Cambridge, MA 1876); illus by Trouvelot @AdlerPlanet https://t.co/N7tFmWJY8h
Hollywood actors and Kazakhstani stuntmen starred in Lola Karimova’s film about Ulugh Beg https://t.co/P3FZFlH7lj
'Portrait of Copernicus' (1973) by Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000); pen, ink, & ink wash on paper @americanart https://t.co/utBTJjQwUd
Building time machines: timekeeping in the medieval Muslim world @MHSOxford https://t.co/unSfOv9EaZ
Gilded bronze and silver equatorial sundial, made by Johan Martin, Augsburg, Germany, c. 1700 @philamuseum https://t.co/8y4STs8NxW