History of Astronomyさんのイラストまとめ

American astronomer Antonia Maury (1866-1952), part of @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day series https://t.co/hBGiemq14E

Astronomy: two rival mathematicians, Urinaal and Raasbollius, argue about models of the solar system; engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1741; from an episode in the play "The mathematicians" by P. Langendijk, 1715; Amsterdam @WellcomeCollect https://t.co/LwbgFS0ttT

Same manuscript. This is the sun with Leo.

Tambourine (tuur) of the “big” shaman of the Shor people who inhabit Southern Siberia; depicts a complex cosmology concerning the structure of the three spheres of the Universe, early 20thC @Kunstkamera_rus https://t.co/go1XWMTO7y

Colored cotton wall hanging, showing the "Leviathan of Parsonstown", a large reflecting telescope erected @BirrCastle in Ireland by Lord Rosse; made by the Working Men's Educational Union, 1853 @RMGreenwich https://t.co/MGADkercwD

Pocket globe with spherical case, containing a fitted terrestrial globe; 12 lunar phases illustrated inside 1/2 of the case, and 4 seasons and zodiac in other half; labeled 'Newton's New Terrestrial Globe, 1818' (London); Snowshill Manor, UK @nationaltrust https://t.co/k1UJHVJtfO

Is There Anybody Out There… Keeping Track of the Weird Stuff We Send Into Space? @atlasobscura https://t.co/Uo6bTKGXkr

A large case of mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, Rome, 1701; the set is unusually extensive, and includes ordinary dividers, a geometric quadrant, a circle of degrees with pointers, a universal sundial, and a set of 'Napier's Rods' @sciencemuseum https://t.co/MNQniqEUgt

"Celebrating Pluto’s discovery: 88 years ago, a distant, icy world blinked into view" @AstronomyMag https://t.co/tScnqWD5QL

Brass astrolabe with fake (purely decorative) rete and 5 tympans; mater made by `Abd al-`Ali, Isfahan, c.1710 @AdlerPlanet https://t.co/xExEAptbhW