History of Astronomy : Topics

History of Astronomy: Topics: Arts, Poetry and Fiction

• The Astronomer, 1668
  Painting by Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), Paris, Louvre
• Ceramic Comets, by Robert H. van Gent
  About cometary depictions on porcelain.
• Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
  Full of ideas about astronomy, cosmology, and the physical and spiritual order within the universe.
• The "Dutchman'a Log" or the Seaman's Tobacco Box of Pieter Holm, by Robert H. van Gent
  These tobacco boxes feature a perpetual calendar on the lid and a ship's speed table on the bottom.
• Ein historisches Halophänomen in Stockholm (in German)
  Painting in a church in Stockholm, Sweden, showing a solar halo

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 12 April 2000. Latest update: 12 April 2000