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This illustration of an armillary sphere is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a…
Contributor:
Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1576
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In the back of a manuscript collection of astronomical texts, which includes one of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s works on the use of the astrolabe (a tool for astronomical calculations), is a set of crude but…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Date:
ca. 1629
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This illustration of the (Aristotelian) cosmos appears in an eighteenth-century manuscript of Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant), David Ganz’s posthumously published book on astronomy.
Contributor:
David Ganz
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
Date:
18th Century