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Picturing Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration — Google Arts & Culture https://t.co/vBTrkINp7B via @googlearts
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
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
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
Framed K'o-ssu silk tapestry depicting the arrival of a planetarium and celestial globe at the Summer Palace of the Emperor of China, Ch'ien-Lung at Peking, September 1793 @RMGreenwich https://t.co/GtcT3gKLsu
Personifications of the Sun, Moon, and planets in a 16thC copy of al-Qazwini's "Wonders of Creation" @bxbibs https://t.co/taE3K0h4E6
"Lesson in Astronomy" (late 1750s), by Venetian artist Giuseppe Angeli (1709-1798) @state_hermitage https://t.co/Q42pjdM1f5
A photograph of a globe of Mars, based on drawings of observations of Mars made by Percival Lowell and staff members @LowellObs; Flagstaff, Arizona, 1894 @LindaHall_org https://t.co/ACOpT85J80
Detail of Plate 2 showing the head of Cetus and the tracks of two comets, by Ignace Gaston Pardies, Paris, 1693 (part of the blog "Mapping the Heavens in 1693"; David Rumsey Map Collection https://t.co/AsKkhyVtHq)