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The hierarchy of the universe, by Robert Fludd, 1617. The soul descends from perfect unity in the heavens to multiplicity on earth, but seeks to re-as...

Fludd's book on metaphysics. Title page of the 1617 work Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia (...

A comet over an administrative building of the monastery of Einsiedeln in Zurich on the night before the 10th March, 1742.

A comet over an administrative building of the monastery of Einsiedeln in Zurich on the night before the 10th March, 1742.

Cast for Albrecht von Wallenstein when he was 25 by the astronomer Johannes Kepler, accurately foretold a life of ambition and violence. The center sq...

Cast for Albrecht von Wallenstein when he was 25 by the astronomer Johannes Kepler, accurately foretold a life of ambition and violence. The center sq...

"The figure of a fearful comet", from Dr. Ambroise Pare's 'Surgery', gives a subjective impression of the comet of 1664-5. Swords, daggers, coffins, a...

Title page from "The Epitome of the whole art of husbandry" by Joseph Blagrave, 1675.

17th century illustration of agriculture.

Six Mechanical Arts: Textile, Work, Smithing, Navigation, Agriculture, Hunting and Medicine. c.1475 from Rodericus Zamorensis, Speculum Vitae Humanae.

William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781 with this telescope.

Horoscope chart of Louis XIV cast by his astrologer, J.B. Morin of Villefranche, from Astrologia Gallica (the Hague 1661). Early horoscope diagrams we...

Illustration of sky design.

New and gigantic telescope, designed by Daniel C. Chapman 1874.

The great equatorial telescope of the Paris observatory. 1883.

Horoscope chart of Louis XIV cast by his astrologer, J.B. Morin of Villefranche, from Astrologia Gallica (the Hague 1661). Early horoscope diagrams we...

Engraving of historical astronomy instruments.

Engraving of historical astronomy instruments.

Radiolarians, after Ernst Haeckel, "Art Forms in Nature" (1904). Computer enhanced.

Radiolarians, after Ernst Haeckel, "Art Forms in Nature" (1904). Computer enhanced.

Radiolarians, after Ernst Haeckel, "Art Forms in Nature" (1904). Computer enhanced.

Radiolarians, after Ernst Haeckel, "Art Forms in Nature" (1904). Computer enhanced.

Radiolarians, after Ernst Haeckel, "Art Forms in Nature" (1904). Computer enhanced.

Drawing of the brain and pineal gland from a physiology textbook by Rene Descartes (French, 31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650). Descartes believed that...

Drawing of the brain and pineal gland from a physiology textbook by Rene Descartes (French, 31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650). Descartes believed that...

This is a myological plate, originally done by Crisostomo Martinez. This is a copy done by Johann Ludwig Choulant, (1791-1861). Color enhancement of 9...

This is a myological plate, originally done by Crisostomo Martinez. This is a copy done by Johann Ludwig Choulant, (1791-1861). Color enhancement of 9...

The Poncelet Wheel, 1826, a drawing from a model in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France. At the time, the Poncelet water whe...

An eighteenth century illustration of a celestial sphere, or rather a representation of the hemisphere of the heavens that can be seen from the northe...

An equatorial telescope, mounted so that it has two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one parallel to the axis of the earth. Color enhance...

Ancient map of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Korean world map, 17th-18th century.

An illustration of the southern hemisphere of a brass celestial globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm. The brass globe was made by Muhamma...

An illustration of the northern hemisphere of a brass celestial globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm. The brass globe was made by Muhamma...

An illustration showing a person calculating the angle between Aldebaran (the brightest star in the constellation Taurus) and the moon, with respect t...

Astronomical clock. Color enhancement of BN2256.

An illustration of an armillary sphere (also known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil), which is a model of the celestial sphere. This woodcut...

An historical astronomical instrument, the heliotropii telioscopici or helioscope, used for observing and following the sun's motion. The first one wa...

Uraniborg, an astronomical observatory operated by Tycho Brahe in Denmark. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish astronomer. After becoming interested...

A universal instrument, which is a type of transit instrument, used for precisely observing the positions of stars. The universal instrument allows fo...

A transit instrument, used for precisely observing the positions of stars.

Illustration of sunspots from Galileo's 1613 book on the sun. Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathemat...

A diagram of 1660 showing the sun-centred universe, an idea revived by Copernicus.

English astronomer William Lassell's 24-inch reflecting telescope, completed in 1845. Lassell's (1799-1880) telescope was the first to be mounted equa...

A reflecting circle, used to measure longitude by calculating the distance between the moon and a nearby star. German astronomer Johann Tobias Mayer d...

Model of the orbit of the planets by Johannes Kepler, devised in 1596-97. German astronomer Kepler devised the three fundamental laws of planetary mot...

An illustration of a passage instrument, an astronomical tool used to determine the time stars pass through the local meridian. Knowing this allowed a...

German astronomer Johannes Kepler's conceptualization of the orbit of Mars. Kepler (1571-1630), devised the three fundamental laws of planetary motion...

A meridian circle or transit circle, an instrument for observing the time of stars passing the meridian, while also measuring their angular distance f...

An illustration of the southern hemisphere of a brass celestial globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm. The brass globe was made by Muhamma...