Image in Arab Work on Astronomy


This Arabic illustration of a star configuration and the figure it is thought to represent was done by al Hariri, an Arabian scholar of Arabic language and literature and a government official who lived in the 13th century It is taken from a work on astronomy. The original is in the National Library in Paris, France.


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