A COMMENTARY OF A TREATISE ON ASTRONOMY: TAWDIH AL-TADHKIRA SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY Very probably a commentary on Nasir al-Din Tusi's al-Tadhkira fi 'ilm al-hay'a, possibly by Nizam al-Din al-Nisapuri, More
Platonic Solids illustration from Mysterium Cosmographicum by Johannes Kepler
Victorinus Strigel: Epitome doctrinae de primo motv aliqvot demonstrationibvs illvstrata, Leipzig, in officina Voegeliana (1564)
Title page from Cometographia quaedam lampadis aeriae que 10. die Novemb. apparuit, anno a Virginto partu, 1577, London: 1578, by Laurence Johnson. STC 1416, Houghton Library, Harvard University Inscription in More
Tycho Brahe in his laboratory. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Unknown people watching the sky. Because of the fine artwork, it probably shows a famous astronomer. It illustrated the Patrick Moore's book Watchers of the stars.
The original title is not known; alternate titles include "Astronomers watching a solar eclipse" and "Astronomers (or Astrologers) Studying an Eclipse."
Svenska: Tycho Brahes stora murkvadrant English: Tycho Brahe in his laboratory
Deutsch: Titelseite der „Astronomiae instasuratae mechanica“ von Tycho Brahe aus dem Jahre 1598.
A sketch of the comet seen in 1577 which inspired Kepler.
An image of the opening verses in the Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji, an astronomer/mathematician of the Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics.
Español: El LUNARIO. El "Lunario" del Vaticano y la información acerca de la reforma del Calendario Juliano por orden del Papa Gregorio XIII. Del "Lunario" de Octubre, Noviembre y Diciembre del año 1582. Notar More
An engraving showing the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observing the new star (supernova) in the Cassiopeia constellation (upper left corner). It appeared in the Historical book Astronomie Populaire by Camille More
TABLE IV, Showing the true extent of the celestial spheres, and of the spaces between them, according to the numbers and opinion of Copernicus
Deutsch: Deckblatt des Almanach perpetuum, 1502 bzw. 1525 Public domain scan of 16th-century book, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Deutsch: Tabulae eclypsium S.21 Public domain scan of 16th-century scientific illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Español: Portada del libro "Tratado de cosas de Astronomia, y Cosmographia y Philosophia Natural", publicado por Juan Pérez de Moya en Alcalá de Henares, en 1573.
Ptolemaic system. "Annotazione sopra la Lettione della Spera del Sacrobosco" Photo of the pages 90 and 91 with models of the ptolemaic system. From the ancient books collection of Mario Taddei
Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar system. Deutsch: Keplers Modell der Bahnen der Planeten unseres Sonnensystems.
The star at the top of this woodcut is the Pole Star, a star permanently in position over the North Pole. The sun at the bottom left shows that daylight in the polar areas begins before the sun rises. The sun t More
Tychonic system Public domain scan of 17th-century scientific illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tycho Brahe's Stjerneborg observatory on the island of Hven, restored. 2005