Constellations - map of the northern skies Woodcut print made by the German artist, Albrecht Durer in 1515, at the request of the Imperial Astronomer, Johann Stabius. The four portraits, in the corners of the print, represent (in clockwise order from top left) Aratus (who wrote a poem on the zodiac), Ptolemy (who was, as the inscription claims, born in Egypt, and who wrote the Tetrabiblos, on astrology), Al-Sufi (then known as Azophi, an Arab (Arabus) astrologer, who had been active in Baghdad in the 10th century, and Manilius (here, M Mamlius Romanus - the Roman astronomer who wrote the poem

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Constellations - map of the northern skies Woodcut print made by the German artist, Albrecht Durer in 1515, at the request of the Imperial Astronomer, Johann Stabius. The four portraits, in the corners of the print, represent (in clockwise order from top left) Aratus (who wrote a poem on the zodiac), Ptolemy (who was, as the inscription claims, born in Egypt, and who wrote the Tetrabiblos, on astrology), Al-Sufi (then known as Azophi, an Arab (Arabus) astrologer, who had been active in Baghdad in the 10th century, and Manilius (here, M Mamlius Romanus - the Roman astronomer who wrote the poem Astronomicon). The Latin text at the top of this remarkably accurate figure translates Images of the Northern Skies with the twelve images of the zodiac.

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Photo credit: © Charles Walker Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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