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The constellation Draco from the Catalog of Fixed Stars by al-Sufi, 18thC Arabic copy @GallicaBnF https://t.co/bBu8vQSeRN

Watercolor of Sir Isaac Newton's telescope in the Library of the Royal Society; observed from two viewpoints, 1829, by William Henry Brooke @britishmuseum https://t.co/J1GsZi5JQ5

A miniature illustration of a comet from a medieval manuscript collection on the natural world, including one on astronomy [Ms. Ludwig XV 4 (https://t.co/8Tjmr1xaxP.174), fol. 155v]; from Thérouanne?, France (formerly Flanders), 1277 or after @GettyMuseum https://t.co/hv5EAsWwsW

“As a young girl, I had a recurring dream...I'm playing outside....daylight fades, and the sky darkens. Soon, stars appear. I lie down...and stare up at the stars and the planets. I look for the constellations...." African-American artist Betye Saar; via https://t.co/KWf2xvfZl7

"The Dance to the Rising Sun, from the Sun Dance, Cheyenne" (1937) by Paul J. Goodbear (Chief Flying Eagle), Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne), 1913-1954 @SmithsonianNMAI https://t.co/N9Fnxz54CU

Study for "Astronomy", c. 1921 by American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925); charcoal and graphite on laid paper @ngadc https://t.co/lLnRz5EHbA

#WorldBookDay
Personifications of the moon and sun in a 16thC Persian copy of al-Qazwini's Wonders/Marvels of Creation;
via @WDLorg https://t.co/bfFt73ZwIg

The Moon represented as a woman on horseback, from Ms. Ludwig XII 8, German Miscellany: Anatomical-Physiological Description of Men; Liber Synonimorum; Descriptions of Planets, Zodiacs & Comets; Treatises on Divination from Names etc., c. 1464 @GettyMuseum https://t.co/Dwg7VjjoEV

Diagram that refers to the retrograde phase of Saturn in a work by Daniel of Morley (fl. c. 1200) who left England to study in Toledo where Arabic texts and teachers were available; he brought Arabic mathematical theory into western thought @britishlibrary https://t.co/pwKzlMHvrW

"Blast of Giant Atom" by Donald H. Menzel (Harvard Observatory) in Popular Science Monthly (December, 1932); a popular article about the expanding universe which appeared only three years after the publication of Hubble's discovery; via https://t.co/5vWyiM7Wyp