Detail of a miniature of the dragon constellation (‘Draco’), in tables from Ptol

Detail of a miniature of the dragon constellation (‘Draco’), in tables from Ptolemy’s Almagest. 

From “Amalgest (extract), Liber Astronomiae, Liber Arenalis, astronomical and geomantic tables, political prophecies” by John Killingworth, Ptolemy, Guido Bonatti & Plato of Tivoli, 1490. 

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