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(A) Palaeolithic European Constellations:
Illustration One (1): Ice-age star maps?
(B) Palaeolithic Siberian-North American Constellations:
Illustration Two (2): Ice-age bear constellation?
(C) Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age Levant Constellations:
Illustration Three (3): Lion iconography as constellation?
(D) Early Mesopotamian Constellations:
Illustration Four (4): Sumerian constellations and star-names?
Illustration Five (5): Elamite lion-bull iconography as constellations?
(E) Late Mesopotamian Constellations:
Illustration Six (6): Kassite kudurru iconography as constellations?
Illustration Seven (7): Babylonian star calendars.
Illustration Eight (8): Assyrian Mul.Apin series.
Illustration Nine (9): Late Babylonian planisphere.
Illustration Ten (10): Late Babylonian constellation depiction.
Illustration Eleven (11): Babylonian world and universe.
(F) Bronze Age European Constellations:
Illustration Twelve (12): The Nebra sky disk enigma.
(G) Greek Constellations:
Illustration Thirteen (13): Classical Greek constellations.
Illustration Fourteen (14): Sphaera Barbarica and Sphaera Graecanica.
Illustration Fifteen (15): Farnese celestial globe.
(H) Roman Constellations:
Illustration Sixteen (16): Roman celestial globes.
Illustration Seventeen (17): Mithraic unranography.
(I) Early Egyptian Constellations:
Illustration Eighteen (18): The decan stars.
Illustration Nineteen (19): Northern and southern constellation groups.
(J) Late Egyptian Constellations:
Illustration Twenty (20): Denderah zodiac.
(K) Pre-Islamic Arab Constellations:
Illustration Twenty-one (21): Arabic anwā' tradition.
(L) Iranian Constellations:
Illustration Twenty-two (22): Early constellations in Iran.
(M) Indian Constellations:
Illustration Twenty-three (23): Early constellations in India.
(N) Chinese Constellations:
Illustration Twenty-four (24): Early constellations in China.
Illustration Twenty-five (25): Early Chinese star maps.
(O) Modern Western Constellations:
Illustration Twenty-six (26): Ptolemy's star catalogue.
Illustration Twenty-seven (27): The Carolingian period.
Illustration Twenty-eight (28): Post-Islam Arab-Islamic Constellations.
Illustration Twenty-nine (29): Al-Sufi's star catalogue.
Illustration Thirty (30): Gherardo of Cremona.
Illustration Thirty-one (31): The eclipse (Late Middle Ages) and restoration (Late Renaissance) of Aratea.
Illustration Thirty-two (32): The constellating of the southern sky.
(P) Amateur Mesopotamian Constellation Studies:
Illustration Thirty-three (33): Robert Brown's Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations.
(Q) Amateur Western Constellation Studies:
Illustration Thirty-four (34): Title page of Carl Swartz's book on the origin of the constellations.
Illustration Thirty-five (35): Title page of Robert Brown's translation of Aratus' Phainomena.
Illustration Thirty-six (36): Richard Allen's Star-Names: Their Lore and Meaning.
(R) Pioneer Mesopotamian Constellation Studies:
Illustration Thirty-seven (37): Franz Kugler's Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel.
Illustration Thirty-eight (38): Ernst Weidner's Handbuch der babylonischen Astronomie.
Illustration Thirty-nine (39):Carl Bezold's Zenit- und Aequatorialgestirne am babylonischen Fixsternhimmel.
(S) Pioneer Western Constellation Studies:
Illustration Forty (40): Ludwig Ideler and Philipp Buttmann.
Illustration Forty-one (41): Title page of Georg Thiele's Antike Himmelsbilder.
Illustration Forty-two (42): Franz Boll's Sphaera and Aus der Offenbarung Johannis.
Illustration Forty-three (43): Wilhelm Gundel's Sterne und Sternbilder im Glauben des Altertums und der Neuzeit.
(T) Modern Constellation Studies:
Illustration Forty-four (44): Modern investigators of constellations and star names.
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