humanoidhistory:Gorgeous pages from Astronicum Caesareum, 1540, a manual on the use of astronomical
humanoidhistory:Gorgeous pages from Astronicum Caesareum, 1540, a manual on the use of astronomical devices like the astrolabe. Hand-colored woodcuts by Michael Ostendorfer, written by Petrus Apianus, court astronomer to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. (Metropolitan Museum of Art) -- source link
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