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The constellation of Draco in a "Catalogue of Stars extracted from Ptolemy's Almagest in the Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona," Arundel MS 66 (f. 33v), 1490 @BLMedieval @britishlibrary https://t.co/YbIANvyfyY
Google celebrates John Harrison’s 325th Birthday https://t.co/9NBd2JbzHk
Happy Birthday to Galileo Galilei, born #OTD 15 February 1564; brief video of Galileo's portraits @museogalileo https://t.co/vPX0aeVX9K
English brass astrolabe known as the "Painswick Astrolabe" after the location where it was excavated: Painswick House, Painswick, Gloucestershire, c.1370; rete for 21 stars, 3 plates @MHSOxford https://t.co/WL6kxTm0mL
Allegory of Astronomy (17thC), from the set of seven engravings, The Seven Liberal Arts (Artes Liberales) by Gilles Rousselet (French, 1610–1686); Davison Art Center @wesleyan_u https://t.co/EcdEVapoob
Opaque watercolour painting of Sun god Sūrya - the oval frame may suggest the solar orb; Thanjavur, India, c.1830 https://t.co/IkkSNX3aQk
Surya the Sun deity driving in his chariot; Indian gouache drawing (n.d.) @WellcomeLibrary https://t.co/BXvouULXtn
Title page to Pieter Goos' "The Sea Atlas or Water-World" (Amsterdam, 1668) @rijksmuseum https://t.co/FCFzFTKBUU
Indian watercolor painting of the 4-headed Sun god, Surya, being pulled in a chariot by 14 white horses, early 19thC https://t.co/5TOFwVa7K3
Libra in Abu Ma'shar's 16thC astrological work "Treatise of Nativities" @GallicaBnF https://t.co/5eZGdEnHsa