1,119 years ago today, the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was born in modern-day Iran. His brilliant illustrations of Hellenistic constellations were made by both translating linguistically, but also systematically, since the Hellenistic star charts were made in Alexandria, Egypt. He was the first man to identify the Andromeda galaxy, describing it as a “small […] The post Good News in...

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