Solar Eclipses of Medieval Science
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Horrifically, the British Library's catalogue of illuminated manuscripts is STILL unavailable, due to the following, which is really causing me a lot of problems.
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Here's a stopgap / enough info to follow up on
Diagram of a solar eclipse made in the very early 13th century (British Library Royal MS 12 C XVII, f. 32r).
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A solar eclipse, from Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (1203–1283) and Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-'i Nathani, Turkish Book of the Wonders of Creation. 1121 AH / 1717 CE
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15th-century French manuscript of the History of Alexander the Great depicting the 331 BCE lunar eclipse during the Battle of Gaugamela. Alexander is consulting his astrologers.
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Tables by Lewis of Caerleon, Welsh physician and astronomer, predicting future lunar and solar eclipses, done while incarcerated in the Tower of London in 1480s.
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Diagrams showing the phases of a solar eclipse from fourteenth century Kalendarium of John Somer (British Library Additional MS 10628, f. 28r.).
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