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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

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2023-03-30

The Geocentric Model:

Figure 1 - Anaximander's proposal of the Earth's tilt in the geocentric model. (Illustration by D.L. Couprie)

Figure 2 - Cosmographic interpretation of Ptolemy's theory by Bartolomeu Velho, a Portuguese cartographer.

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2021-06-15

Which 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 😉

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2021-02-15

From Ptolemy's 2nd c. to Beatus' 8th c. (here in a 1929 facsimile by Konrad Miller). The tripartite world is encircled with water; East, where Paradise lay, is at the top of the the Red Sea unmistakable in the South. A spatial-temporal worldview

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2021-01-13

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: BL Burney 275, f. 390v: pillar sundial, equatorium, astrolabe, and sextant

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2018-08-23

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 https://t.co/YbIANvyfyY

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2018-04-28

For 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.

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2018-03-02