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EB 1911 Map Fig 17
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EB 1911 Map Fig 17

Caption: " —Globe in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris". A brass Arabian celestial globe held by the French National Library (N. Res. Ge. A 325, 18.3 cm diameter, 35 cm tall). The globe is among the oldest surviving from the Arab world. It depicts the ecliptic and celestial equator (inclined relative to one another at about 23½°), graduated every 5° around their circumference. It also bears 1,004 stars arranged into 47 or 48 constellations from Ptolemy's Almagest and the (B Group) Book of the Fixed Stars of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī with descriptions in Kufic script. It was acquired for the library by "Jomard" in Egypt around 1860, although it is now credited to Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Sahlī, an astronomer of Muslim Spain. The simple stand is a later creation.

Date
c. 1911
Mapmaker / publisher
Presumably Emery Walker
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
1,184 × 1,394 pixels

Public domain

Reason: a US government work.

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