Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century
Some of the earliest examples of calligrams found in a 9th-century astronomical manuscript on the constellations….more
15th Century and Earlier
Flowers of the Sky
Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium – in chronological order – of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars….more
Kitab al-Bulhan or Book of Wonders (late 14thC.)
The Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, is an Arabic manuscript dating mainly from the late 14th century A.D. and probably bound together in Baghdad during the rei…more