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"Lesson in Astronomy" (late 1750s), by Venetian artist Giuseppe Angeli (1709-1798) @state_hermitage https://t.co/Q42pjdM1f5
Korean painting of the Tejaprabha Buddha and the North Pole star, surrounded by figures representing the navagraha (9 planets), 28 constellations and 12 western signs of the zodiac; mineral colors on coarse silk; Joseon Dynasty, 1850-60 @britishmuseum https://t.co/XJquGsp6jJ
Astronomical diagrams from Leonardo de Pierio Dati's "Sferamundi" c.1475 @WellcomeLibrary https://t.co/nIl3y7ibEV
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
Double-faced brass astrolabe, 17thC, Lahore, Pakistan; rim, 7 plates, 2 retes, rule, & chain; rete for southern stars has tulips open toward ecliptic ring/rete for northern stars has flowers at bottom that opens away from ecliptic rings @AdlerPlanet https://t.co/sdw2UshXgv
Black basalt stone of the Navagraha - the personification of the nine "planets"; individual symbols underneath each of the deities (n.d.); Vikramshila Museum, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India https://t.co/JYQloXWtXX
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