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Historical Astronomy Diagrams

A collection of antique celestial maps and astrological diagrams showcasing geocentric models, zodiac signs, and astronomical systems with ornate details.

Antique print showing Zodiac signs and celestial planetary system with Sun at center
Antique print showing Zodiac signs and celestial planetary system with Sun at center
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Constellation Card of Capricornus
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Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
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Waterhoos. Pinging of a windhole at sea with inscription 'P.G. Hannes Fecit '. Refusident, Brandes of this Hannes has copied the drawing. Part from Jan Brandes, DL sketchbook. 2 (1808), p. 202.
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Illustration depicting the method of using a planimeter with magnetic compass for making a survey. Dated 17th Century
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Constellation of Pegasus
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Crystals of snow, page 665 , Detail. text. Illustrations. 1843. General Research Division
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Kepler's explanation of the structure of the planetary system, 1619. Johannes Keppler (1571-1630) used the five regular polyhedra between the spheres of the planets in the diagram of his explanation. From 'Hamonice mundi', Johannes Keppler, (1619), the book in which he published his third law of planetary motion. Engraving.
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Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1578). Italian astronomer and humanist. "Crown to Ariadne". De le stelle fisse (The sphere of the world and The fixed stars). Edited in Venice, 1540. Engraving, 1559.
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Circumference of the Earth. Eratosthenes (250 BC) calculated the circumference of the Earth by measuring noontime shadows at two localities of different latitude. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) developed a novel way to measure the area of a circle using the rotation of wheel half the thickness of its radius. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy.
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Map of ocean currents as of 1895, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century template
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Map of land emerged in Europe at the time of the Silurian sea, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886.
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An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.
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Plateau's Phenakistoscope - a variant of the zootrope, in which the images, seen through slits, seem to move when the disc is rotated. Date: 1885
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Halley's planisphere of the Southern Stars made after his expedition to St Helena. Dated 17th century
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Miniature of flora on the earth and stars in the heavens, featuring text, initials, placemarkers, and linefiller. Folio 4v., 1390
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Solar eclipse of July 25, 1748, Anonymous, After Simon Jansz. Panser, 1748 print Astronomical representation of how the incomplete solar eclipse of 25 July 1748 in Amsterdam and surrounding places will be perceptible and how it will cast a shadow in the northern hemisphere of the earth. With different stages of the eclipse. Stuck under the plate a text sheet with the title and a statement of the show in two columns by Simon Panser. paper etching / letterpress printing solar eclipse
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Astrolabio (reproducción), siglo XII. Museu d'Història de Catalunya, Barcelona.
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Urbania (Marche - PU), Palazzo Ducale, Sala dei Globbi. Gerardo Mercatore, Celestial Sphere, 1551 (etching on paper with watercolor interventions, glued on support)
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Constellations Including Scorpio, Celestial & Astrological Charts
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Model for a Face And Profil, Anonymous, Hans Sebald Beham, 1565 print paper letterpress printing anatomy (non-medical). model-books ~ implements of painter
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Meteorology: a table of the weather. Engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1815, after Sir John Herschel.
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Canus Major #1, Celestial & Astrological Charts
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A standard drawing set. By the 19th century sets of drawing instruments ranged from huge magazine cases filled with every conceivable device to more modest options. This case contains a pen and dividers, as well as compasses with extensions and alternative drawing points. There is also a scale rule, parallel ruler and sector, all in ivory.
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Diagram showing formation of different rocks and evolution of life on Earth. Print published c1880
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Channels and acupoints of the thorax and abdomen
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England/UK: 'Canis Major, Lepus, Columba Noachi & Cela Sculptoris', plate 30 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by 'A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy', Sidney Hall and Richard Rouse, London, 1824
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Illustration depicting a Geocentric model of the universe, from 1538 edition, of 'Kitb-I ajyb al-makhlqt va gharib al-mawjdt'. (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) a 12th century, Islamic, Persian scientific book by Zakary ibn Muammad Qazwn
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The Eclipse of the Sun as it will appear at London on July 14, 1748, Print made by unknown artist, nineteenth century, after Anthony Walker, 1726-1765, British, 1748, Engraving, astronomy, eclipse (astronomical), moon, sun
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Constellations of Delphinus and Equuleus
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Illustration showing Chart with volvelle for comparing the time in different countries of the world. Published in 1771
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Southern starry sky, Allgemeiner Handatlas, published by Velhagen und Klasing 1887 in Leipzig
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. Central over a cartouche with the title of the print series. Under the cartouche the printing press. At the top left a round map of the continent America. A half-naked young woman (EV. New times) with the Halaboros snake points to North America with a pointer. At the top of a compass rose and an older man (eV. Antiquity) with the Halaboros snake. In the foreground objects that symbolize the new inventions of the sixteenth century: the silkworm, a saddle and traces, a mechanical timepiece, a cannon and gunpowder, a medicinal plant and distillation equipment. The print has a Latin legend and is part of a series about new inventions and discoveries.
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Aviation, études, essais et inventions qui, sans résourdre le problème de l'aviation, ont pourtant donné des résultats intéresssants et encourageants à l'auteur / dédié par l'auteur aux chercheurs, expérimentateurs, inventeurs et amis de l'aviation, aoùt 1866, Bourcart. - digital file from original drawing | Library of Congress
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Pathologies of 3 foot Yang channels manifested at the surface
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Clock mechanism, miniature from the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Al-Jazari, 1203, Turkey.
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The Constellation of Corvus the Raven, Folio from Suwar al-Kawakib al-Thabita (The Book of Fixed Stars) by Abd al-Rahman (b. Umar al-Sufi, 903-986 CE) The Constellation of Corvus the Raven, Folio from Suwar al-Kawakib al-Thabita (The Book of Fixed Stars) by Abd al-Rahman (b. Umar al-Sufi, 903-986 CE), 16th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 5 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (14.6 x 20 cm). Arts of the Islamic World 16th century
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Constellation Card of Taurus
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Iraq: The earliest known medical description of the eye, from a 9th century work by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809-873), 12th century CE manuscript
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Constellation of Lynx, Celestial & Astrological Charts
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Islamic anatomy of a horse from an Egyptian manuscript. Dated 15th Century
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Apparent market planets Venus, Mars and Jupiter during February March, April and May 1857, vintage engraving. Apparent market planets Venus, Mars and Jupiter during February March, April and May 1857, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673821
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Astronomy in China has a very long history, with historians indicating that the Chinese were the most persistent and accurate observers of celestial phenomena anywhere in the world before the Arabs. Star names later categorized in the twenty-eight mansions have been found on oracle bones unearthed at Anyang, dating back to the middle Shang Dynasty (Chinese Bronze Age, 3rd - 2nd millennium BCE), and the mansion system's nucleus seems to have taken shape by the time of the ruler Wu Ding (1339-1281 BCE). Detailed records of astronomical observations began during the Warring States period (fourth century BCE) and flourished from the Han period onward. Chinese astronomy was equatorial, centered as it was on close observation of circumpolar stars, and was based on different principles from those prevailing in traditional Western astronomy, where heliacal risings and settings of zodiac constellations formed the basic ecliptic framework.
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Project for flapping-wing machine, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
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Movement and positions of the planet Mars, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque (1882).
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Planetary bodies. Opaque watercolour on paper, Western India, 18th century. This image shows planetary bodies and the distances between them. Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and other planets are depicted along with suns and moons.
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Insects, Map of the distribution of important and characteristic insects and arachnids on earth, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Illustration of the Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere, 16th century. Artist: Unknown
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PARTE SUPERIOR DEL RELOJ RELOJ ASTRONOMICO- S XV CALENDARIO CON EL ZODIACO OBRA DE JOSEP MANES DE 1865. Author: HANUS-MAESTRO RELOJERO. Location: AYUNTAMIENTO-CIUDAD VIEJA. PRAG. CZECH REPUBLIC.
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Woodblock print depicting comets and meteors. Dated 16th Century
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Map of the continents and seas in the Upper Triassic period. North America, Atlantis, Europe, Asia, Gondwanaland. Colour print after an illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer, Leipzig, 1932.
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The damn tree and the flattened grain, William Blake, 1820 - 1821 print A tree in the moonlight, next to a field with flattened grain. paper illustration ~ printed matter, book. plants ~ agriculture
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Chinese and Greek zodiac. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1885
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A representation of the constellations in the hemisphere of Aries, table 1 from Johann Bode's 'Uranographia', engraved by Berolini, published 1801. The celestial atlas was one of the last to contain elaborate artistic figures of the constellations.
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ESFERA ARMILAR EN LA BIBLIOTECA PROCEDENTE DE FLORENCIA - 1582. Author: ANTONIO SANTUCCI (-1613) ASTRONOMO ITALIANO. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-EDIFICIO. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Photo Illustration of Nicolaus Copernicus at the Center of the Solar System
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Asiatic and Aethiopian Tributaries from the Tomb of Rekhmara, Ancient Egypt