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Illustration of an Armillary Sphere
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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

Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology, Illuminated manuscripts, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Astronomy, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration of a sphere circled by rings at various angles, including illustrations of zodiac symbols.
Sefirotic Tree
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sefirot, Animals, Astrology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Astronomy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a half circle shape with many interior circles and branches, with center illustration of a person with three winged animals and an angel, another illustration on the left of person with a crown, and drawings along the perimeter of the half circle.
Foldout Calendar
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)

Date:

1552

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Calendar, Astrology, Animals, Holidays

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Religion & Theology
Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.
Illustration of the (Aristotelian) Cosmos
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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

Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology, Illuminated manuscripts, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Astronomy, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.
Astronomical Illustration
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This diagram of the cosmos 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 translation of…

Contributor:

Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown

Places:

Mantua, Italy

Date:

16th Century

Subjects:

Ecology, Astrology, Astronomy

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Metaphysics, Astrology
Manuscript page with concentric circles, zodiacal signs and Hebrew labels in outer circles, and some Hebrew text above and below.