Jehangir and the temporal astrolabe Lithographs from India This would further ornate the

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

he wrote two copies of the Qur’an in perfect calligraphy

Shah Jahan chose to link these symbols of peace and justice with divine sanction for his rule

seven-decade career

Jehangir and the temporal astrolabe Lithographs from India This would further ornate theThis 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