History of Astronomyさんのイラストまとめ

Five southern constellations: Hydra, Corvus, Centaurus with Lepus (appears here as a yellow long-tailed cat), and Lupus (shown here as a pink tiger); from a copy of Marvels of Things Created by al-Qazwīnī, produced in Mughal India, 17thC @PublicDomainRev https://t.co/UyiSZg2CA5

Allegory of Astronomy (Urania) 1667, by Italian painter Francesco Cozza (1605-1682); Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
https://t.co/WLyw56sBbH

"Octant and Sextant" - a brief video from the video series @museogalileo
https://t.co/q04RK5WZfJ

"[The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch, #4]: The night circled in its immense space, the orb turned by Atlas" by Peter Lipman-Wulf (1905-93), German artist born in Berlin who emigrated to the United States after WWII @lbinyc
https://t.co/VZ1bo5IODJ

"(From Blue Print series) #8, Noonlight" (1972) by American artist, Howard Hack (1932-2015); blue print on paper @americanart (via @SmithsonianLab https://t.co/ercFVe9CxS

Cosmic Explorations: at the Intersection of Science, Space, Art, and Culture
June 22-25, 2020
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
11th international conference from the series “The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena”
https://t.co/PMS3HCJAOf

Musical automaton clock, c. 1777, movement by Jan Carel Lambreghts, Flemish, Antwerp; dials for hours, days of the month, etc.; moon-phase dial, and topped by a rotating planetarium (part of the @metmuseum's Making Marvels exhibit)-video of clock operating https://t.co/jDKGSM6YvV

Tibetan priest's time-stick from Darjeeling, India, unsigned, 1895-1905; similar to the column sundial, a wire gnomon was placed in the hole that corresponded with the month, it was then twisted to align the shadow with the scale @sciencemuseum https://t.co/OKxuf7YFui

Graphite drawing of American astronomer at Harvard, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) by Eleanor Connell, c. 1930; Cannon's cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification @smithsoniannpg https://t.co/nbrxt7jeiY

And why my profile picture is what it is - that's Hevelius with his wife Elisabetha - I really should rewrite my (already-reviewed) article on Elisabetha and resend for publication