Image: Book of the Fixed Stars Auv0333 Orion

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Description: Orion (al-jabbar), the giant. (Constellations of the southern hemisphere). From Al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Stars (Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib (al-thābitah)), a revision of Ptolemy's Almagest with Arabic star names and drawings of the constellations. Dated 1009-10 (A.H. 400). Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 144. Illustration showing Orion as it would appear in the celestial globe, the mirror image of how it appears to an observer from the earth. Al-Sufi's book had two illustrations for each constellation, showing both views.
Title: Book of the Fixed Stars Auv0333 Orion
Credit: The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Author: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
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