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Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 19:15

Some of the earliest examples of calligrams found in a 9th-century astronomical manuscript on the constellations.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/aratea-making-pictures-with-words-in-the-9th-century/