De mundi sphaera (On the Heavenly Spheres) by Orontius, Oronce Fine. Paris, 1542. shows the author (Orontius) holding an astrolabe as he sits next to the muse of astronomy (“Urania”) and below a depiction of the heavenly spheres.

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