Virgo, the celestial Maiden, from a seventeenth century hand-coloured engraving, which is itself based on the 9th century Aratus mss. at Leiden. Aratus was born about 315 BC in Soli, and wrote his work on the stars for the ruler of Macedonia.

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Photo credit: © Charles Walker Collection / Alamy / Afripics
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