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Image below of what scholars think the meteoroscope may have looked like, according to the treatise. Then, three images that show an original stained page, the imaging result, and tracing of just the Greek characters (Ptolemy's work). Impressive! https://t.co/aLksjHt2xx
Rodomy in her original form
She's a cute dragon x3 💖✨
She was cursed to be human by Dracolisk in Pop'n Pop :'D
She's Ptolemy's pet ✨
#fairylandstory #popnpop #popnpoptaito #taito
Which #mapmonster do you identify with this Monday morning?
Monsters can be found in Ptolemy's Atlas and Janszoon's coastal chart (and your office?):
https://t.co/KlWfKp2mJ9
https://t.co/KePRgqkBeS
Thanks for the inspo @natlibscot 😉
Quadrivium: Animals displaying instruments of astronomy instead of the more usual musical instruments in a margin of Ptolemy's "Almagest," manuscript from the early 1300s: @britishlibrary BL Burney 275, f. 390v: pillar sundial, equatorium, astrolabe, and sextant @julianpharrison
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
For #WorldBookDay, we give you the world.
Ptolemy's "Geographia," printed by Johann Reger for Justus de Albano, Ulm, 1486. On view in the Library Exhibition Hall.
#MapMonsterMonday: a #dragon from #Ptolemy's 1584 #map of #Africa
{NB I don't actually think dragons are monsters}
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