humanoidhistory:Our solar system as mythic symbols in Flowers of Abu Ma'shar, an 8th-century astrolo
humanoidhistory:Our solar system as mythic symbols in Flowers of Abu Ma'shar, an 8th-century astrological textbook by Persian scholar Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787-886), who served as an astrologer, astronomer, and Islamic philosopher in the Abbasid court in Baghdad. What we see here are details from a 1488 German edition based on a 12th century translation by Johannes Hispalensis, aka John of Seville. (World Library) -- source link