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Paper Astrolabe
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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

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Astronomy, Cosmology, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Astronomy, Cosmology
Drawing of circle with many lines forming squares and rectangles within it.
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…

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Artist Unknown

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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.