History of Astronomyさんのイラストまとめ

Southern constellation of Ara (the altar) in an 18thC copy (from either Egypt or Turkey) of al-Ṣūfī's Catalog of the Fixed Stars @GallicaBnF https://t.co/IXsx7LfydA

Artist's impression: How to paint a planet @nwtls https://t.co/dCrQXEnsbS

"Urania's Mirror celestial charts" - this set of thirty-two engraved and hand-colored celestial star charts were first printed in 1824 to help teach the constellations @NtlMuseumsScot https://t.co/DDaLxOZOzv

Google Doodle honors French mathematician Émilie du Châtelet https://t.co/dJYhARWHc0

Folio from a 19thC manuscript from Sri Lanka with a drawing of the 12 zodiac signs; the central portrait is probably that of the god/prince Rāma, conqueror of the demon Rāvaṇa who had kidnapped his wife Sītā on the island of Sri Lanka @GallicaBnF https://t.co/nOUMXiTXHO

Print of Mars from the The Seven Planets series; Mars is represented as a warrior holding a burning torch and banner; with a ram representing Aries and a scorpion representing Scorpio; German, 1550-70 @britishmuseum https://t.co/Ui1zhIV0sh

"A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism" Scientific Reports @NaturePortfolio https://t.co/ZGSubFNpTk

"Pleasing the Eye, Empowering the Mind: Visualization in Astronomy and Cosmology" @AdlerPlanet via https://t.co/xuwLCYag4b

Personification of the planet Saturn in a chariot pulled by dragons; in the upper corners the signs of the zodiac that symbolize his planet children: Capricorn and Aquarius; from the seven planet series, Cologne, 1589-1611 @rijksmuseum https://t.co/1tJJ2AvTME

Image from Michelangelo Caetani's, Figura Universale Della Divina Commedia (Overview of the Divine Comedy), 1855 @Cornell_Library @Cornell_Digital; see "700 Years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Art" @PublicDomainRev https://t.co/CtjhYN95rb