Solar and lunar eclipse
Date
1732
Creator
Ahmed al-Kirimi (Ottoman-Turkish) , Engraver
After
Katip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي) (1609 - 1657, Ottoman-Turkish) , Scholar
Object type
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Geometric representation of various phases of a solar and lunar eclipse.
Unnumbered plate from Jihannuma (loosely translated as Displaying the World) by Katip Çelebi (ed. by Ibrahim Müteferrika, Constantinople, 1732).
Katip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة) (1609-1657) was an Ottoman-Turkish scholar, historian and geographer.
Jihannuma is a world atlas containing maps of earth and the stars. It strove to offer proofs that the earth was round, arguing against the widespread view in the Islamic world at the time, which claimed that the earth was flat.
Unnumbered plate from Jihannuma (loosely translated as Displaying the World) by Katip Çelebi (ed. by Ibrahim Müteferrika, Constantinople, 1732).
Katip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة) (1609-1657) was an Ottoman-Turkish scholar, historian and geographer.
Jihannuma is a world atlas containing maps of earth and the stars. It strove to offer proofs that the earth was round, arguing against the widespread view in the Islamic world at the time, which claimed that the earth was flat.
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