Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi964
Records the Andromeda Galaxy in the Book of Fixed Stars as a small cloud, the earliest surviving written description of M31.
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Records the Andromeda Galaxy in the Book of Fixed Stars as a small cloud, the earliest surviving written description of M31.
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