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Multidisciplinary and multicultural history of astronomy #histastro by @VoulaSaridakis, Ph.D. | Curator @msichicago and @NASAJPL @NASASolarSystem Ambassador.
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Fully funded PhD Studentship on Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Notebooks. The student will be based Durham University and the The Royal Society. Further particulars and application information here: academia.edu/71074381/Celes… British Society for the History of Science Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 History of Science American Historical Association Coordinating Council for Women in History History of Astronomy
@observatorioseichu In partnership with the illustrator Maxakali Maybí Mxkl Conta Reserva #SOSMaxakali 🦜, we are developing an app for the dissemination of two Tupi-Guarani astronomical knowledge. #divulgaçãocientífica #astronomia cultural #povosoriginarios #geek #ciências #astronomia
Drawing of the Transit of 2012 by Richard Proctor in his 'Transits of Venus. A popular account of past and coming transits, from the first observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the transit of A.D. 2012' (New York, 1875) Library of Congress loc.gov/resource/gdcma…
Alabaster Egyptian miniature vertical sundial (h: 6 cm; w: 5.8 cm), c. 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE Musée du Louvre, via isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ti…
Large-scale model/orrery of the solar system according to astronomical research current in the 1820s; it was designed and made as a low-tech version for use in academic settings by Joseph C. Hart in New York, NY, 1824 Winterthur Museum museumcollection.winterthur.org/single-record.…
Woman Representing the Moon - a painted figure from Baranof Island/Sitka, Alaska, c. 1882 Smithsonian NMNH n2t.net/ark:/65665/346…
Diagram of the planets of the Solar System from Jaghmīnī's treatise on astronomy and geography with a preface and dedication to Ulugh Beg of Samarkand The Penn Libraries, via openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html…
💫Line up for next Skyscape Archaeology Lecture Series run by us & Sophia Centre Sophia CentrePress & Bournemouth Uni is now out. See sophia-project.net/lectures-and-s… & 👀mark your diaries: we kick off 4pm GMT 22/2/23 with Camilla Power: 'Lunarchy: the original economics of time' Pls RT
'Celestial globe' (1929-30) by Swedish-born glass maker and designer, Edward Hald (1883-1980); engraved glass, mounted in pewter; manufactured by Orrefors glasbruk, Orrefors, Sweden Nationalmuseum SWE collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlu…
Stone sculpture from India of planetary deities Shani (Jupiter), Rahu and Ketu (both associated with eclipses), 10thC-12thC; three of the nine planetary deities, or 'navagrahas,' of Hindu astrology The Walters Art Museum art.thewalters.org/detail/22262/d…
Paper fragment of either an apocalyptic or astrological prognostication, mentioning an eclipse of the sun and that a king will kill a king (date range, 6th-19thC; Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew); from the Cairo Genizah collection CambridgeDigitalLib cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AS-…
'African Creation Myths' by JC Holbrook via African Cosmos (below: A Yoruba lidded bowl representing the separation between the living (earth) and spiritual (sky) realms Smithsonian National Museum of African Art) africancosmosdiary.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/gue…
'The great Qing Dynasty's complete map of all under heaven' shown pictorially on a fan, c. 1890; shows the Chinese system of coordinates of the major stars in the astronomical chart; the shape of China is distorted so as to fit the fan Library of Congress loc.gov/item/gm7100501…
Stars & the Art of Astronomy in Islamic History Bayt Al Fann baytalfann.com/post/stars-the…; (below: artwork by Neslihan Gülbahar Ekinci [b. 1974, Istanbul]), for more on her work, see yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/gulbahar-ekinc…
Scientists Discovered These Ancient Cities Have a Secret Link to the Cosmos vice.com/en/article/jgp… via Motherboard
Decorative bronze nocturnal from the late 19thC Germany; this is highly decorative with a leaf design, but the absence of a central hole would have meant it could not function as a working nocturnal so it may have been a 'fake' History of Science Museum hsm.ox.ac.uk/collections-on…
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