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Space art has roots deep in the history of art itself. A dark, starry sky has been a universally awe-inspiring sight to all peoples across the world in every era. History is filled with both written and visual stories in great variety of what people thought the stars really were. The randomness of the stars scattered across the sky simply begs for patterns to be drawn across them in the human mind.
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Davis, D. (2021). Astronomical Art: From Ancient Times to the Industrial Revolution. In: Ramer, J., Miller, R. (eds) The Beauty of Space Art. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49359-2_2
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