File:Al Sufi - Book of Fixed Stars - Ursa Major (The Great Bear) - Bodleian Library - Marsh 144.jpg
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English: The Great Bear as depicted in Al Sufi's c. 964 Book of Fixed Stars. The familiar seven stars of the " Big Dipper", recorded by Ptolemy, are visible in the rump and tail, but notice they occur as a mirror-image of what we actually see because Al Sufi provided two images of each constellation, one as we see it in the night sky and one as seen here on a celestial globe. The image is from the c. 1009 copy in the Bodleian Library, the oldest copy extant. |
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