History of Astronomyさんのイラストまとめ

"Great Beasts of Legend: Underwater Panthers and their Place in the Native American Cosmos" (video lecture by Dr. Megan Kassabaum, Weingarten Assistant Curator, American Section, @pennmuseum)
https://t.co/Ac1f65pC6v

Engraving of the creation of the planets - surrounded by angels, God points toward a succession of spheres & flames; illustration to the Spanish trans of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle', c.1785-1804 by Fernando Selma & Mariano Salvador Maella @britishmuseum
https://t.co/5Vmhhv8B0b

"Portrait of Copernicus" (1973) by American artist, Leonard Baskin (1922-2000); pen and ink and ink wash on paper @americanart https://t.co/GY4ku47erl

Manuscripts and printing in the spread of Muslim science [below: armillary sphere in Kâtib Çelebi's "Kitâb-i Cihânnümâ" (Istanbul, 1732)] @HeritageMuslim https://t.co/uajAwuCSxh

Watercolor of the return of Halley's Comet in 1835 by John James Chalon (born in Geneva in 1778, family moved to England when he was a year old); a group of townspeople point at the comet while another looks at it through a telescope @RMGreenwich
https://t.co/nmzNRrpw9R

"The View from Palomar" (1958) by American artist, Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994), paper etching; the title may allude to the view through the telescope on Mount Palomar @britishmuseum https://t.co/c7hVK4e9ZO

View of the moon and names of some of its principal features; lithograph published by James Reynolds & Sons, 174 Strand, London, c. 1850 @sciencemuseum
https://t.co/C8r2hHYHi1

Silk painting of mythological brother and sister, Fuxi and Nuwa, c. 3rdC-8thC; they hold a compass and ruler, symbols related to the traditional Chinese understanding of the universe, with the sun, moon, and several constellations surrounding them @The_NMK
https://t.co/VtUCzKxQWc

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