This Is A Young Antelope

A pair of silver mounted miquelet pistols from the Caucasus, mid 19th century.

from Hermann Historica

Eurasian brown bear

Gold and silver decorated matchlock pistol, Japan, 18th-19th century.

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LJS 478 - [Astronomical anthology]

This manuscript is a collection of astronomical treatises: 

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī’s Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkina fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb (On the construction of the astrolabe); 

two treatises on “crab and drum” astrolabes now attributed to the 10th-century astronomer Nasṭūlus (or Basṭūlus); 

a treatise on an instrument for finding the direction of Mecca; 

a treatise on the ecliptic; 

a treatise on the compass.

It was written in Persia or Anatolia, in A.H. 625 (1228 CE). 

Click here to read more about it, or here for the facsimile! 

Antione Le Grand’s “Historia Naturae”, published 1673 in London. Le Grande (1629-1699) was a Franciscan friar and philosopher.

Bad Moods by Simon Geis

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