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Novae Theoricae Planetarum– moving volvelle

“Diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae Novae Planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach, who taught at the universities in Padua and Ferrara. The diagrams demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion. An early 17th-century inscription on the first flyleaf refers to an edition of Peurbach published in Venice in 1616.”

–You can see and download the whole manuscript at Penn in Hand

-Read “Decoding the Medieval Volvelle” for more about these cool paper astrolabes

melianinarda:

The Middle-Earth aesthetic | The Lord of The Rings’ quotes

‘Away high in the East swung Remmirath, the
Netted Stars, and slowly above the mists red Borgil rose, glowing like a jewel
of fire. Then by some shift of airs all the mist was drawn away like a veil,
and there leaned up, as he climbed over the rim of the world, the Swordsman of
the Sky, Menelvagor with his shining belt. The Elves all burst into song.
Suddenly under the trees a fire sprang up with a red light.’

Book I, Chapter 3,

Three is Company

Source: melianinarda

theancientwayoflife:

~ Brass celestial globe, made by Muhammad ibn Hilal.
Date: A.D. 1271
Place of origin: Mosul, Mesopotamia
Period: Middle Islamic
Medium: copper alloy; silver

Source: britishmuseum.org

PAIRE DE GLOBES céleste et terrestre en verre. En provenance de grandes demeures et châteaux privés du Val de Loire. –Rouillac Auctioneers