Jehangir and the temporal astrolabe Lithographs from India Popularly known as "Flowering Marigold

Popularly known as "Flowering Marigold

This would further ornate the mood of his solemn yet stately paintings

this rendered him a heretic

two sons and a grandson of Bahadur Shah Zafar II

Jehangir and the temporal astrolabe Lithographs from India Popularly known as "Flowering MarigoldThis is perhaps the largest painting to have emerged from the Mughal period. It shows emperor Jahangir whose name means world seizer, holding a globe in his right palm. It is believed that this globe was constructed by the metallurgist Muhammad Salih Tahtawi who was famed for the then impossible feat of constructing seamless hollow spheres, leaving no tell tale cavity or crease from its making. Seventeenth century astrolabe (astrolabe is an ancient