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    Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend, Astronomy & Space

    Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

    Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
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    Astronomy & Space

    Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

    A Vanishing Nova: *Uranographia Britannica* (ca. 1749)
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    A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)

    Agnes Giberne’s *The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars* (1898)
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    Agnes Giberne’s The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898)

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‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s *Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars* (ca. 1430)
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    Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

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    Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek

    Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek

    By Lauren Collee

    Can a person’s experiences on earth alter how they perceive the stars? Lauren Collee peers through the telescope of Anton Pannekoek, the Dutch astronomer whose politics informed his human approach to studying the cosmos. more

    27 Oct 2021
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