Image: Book of the Fixed Stars Auv0043 ursa minor cropped
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Description: Ursa minor, the lesser bear. (Constellations of the northern 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.
Author: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
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