Medical Astrology: Science, Art, and Influence in early-modern Europe

Item

The Sun as Ruler of Leo

Title

The Sun as Ruler of Leo

Creator

Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476)

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

1528

Description

Black-and-white image of the Sun, anthropomorphized and shown as a hybrid of the Roman "Sol Invictus"and Albrecht Dürer's Sol Iustitiae (1499-1500)

Format

image

Rights

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Source

Des weitberümten M. Johannem Künigspergers, Natürlicher kunst d[er] Astronomei, kurtzer begriff : von natürlichem influss der gestirn, Planeten vnd Zeychen etc. ... einem jeden nutzlich, notwendig vnnd lustig züwissen (Strassburg: [Christian] Egenolphen, 1528), Section IX. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.