badesaba:

شاهنامه

manuscript illustrations from the “shahnameh” (book of kings)

cloudeatermusic: manuscript page from kafka’s the trial

cloudeatermusic:

manuscript page from kafka’s the trial

mondonoir: “This work helps chart, with numerous volvelles, the movements of the heavenly bodies by the methods of Regiomontanus. Published soon after the papal bull of 1586 forbidding astrology, Gallucci nonetheless asserts the importance of the rational, scientific investigation of the heavens.” Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Speculum Uranicum, Venice: Damianus Zenarus, 1593

mondonoir:

“This work helps chart, with numerous volvelles, the movements of the heavenly bodies by the methods of Regiomontanus. Published soon after the papal bull of 1586 forbidding astrology, Gallucci nonetheless asserts the importance of the rational, scientific investigation of the heavens.”

Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Speculum Uranicum, Venice: Damianus Zenarus, 1593

mounabowa: Houses of Heaven ~Icelandic manuscript from the 1700s

mounabowa:

Houses of Heaven ~Icelandic manuscript from the 1700s

samehat: criminalwisdom: The Wound Man - A medieval anatomy illustration depicting all the injuries that a body might sustain.

samehat:

criminalwisdom:

The Wound Man - A medieval anatomy illustration depicting all the injuries that a body might sustain.

Reblogged from samehat with 370 notes / anatomy medieval manuscript wounds 

Diagram of an eclipse of the sun, with the moon casting a shadow cone, c. 1260. Calendar, Tables for art of computus, Computus, Quadrans, De Sphaera, Algorismus, Cautelae wallacegardens

Diagram of an eclipse of the sun, with the moon casting a shadow cone, c. 1260.

Calendar, Tables for art of computus, Computus, Quadrans, De Sphaera, Algorismus, Cautelae

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