This is the best sun-riven-in-twain we've seen all week, from Prodigiorvm Ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

From Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria and in the Tyrol by Charles Boner, 1860.

Here's a buffalo mandala from an ad in Free Niagara, 1886.

The sun as an egotist, from Oculus Hoc Est by Christoph Scheiner, 1619.

From John Chinaman by Rowe Lingston, 1891.

"Up, up, up in the air I went, so that I counted the spots on the morning sun."  From In the Green Park by F. Norreys Connell and illustrated by F. H. Townsend, 1894.

From a Boston Symphony Orchestra program, 1881.

From Post Office Edinburgh and Leith Directory, 1846.

Solar flares are just the sun pulling his hair out.  From Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1909.

"The ship that sailed into the sun," from Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands, 1899.

Three suns from Bilder aus der Deutschen Kulturgeschichte by Albert Richter, 1882.

"Worshippers of the rising sun," from from The Foreign Freaks of Five Friends by C. A. Jones, 1882.

"By some means, however, they got to the sky, / And found the Sun throned in his palace on high."  From Thoughts and Fancies by John Cotton, 1897.

"The waning polar day, 22nd September 1893. Pastel sketch. (The original was injured by damp.)" From Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen, 1897.

From London Bridge to Lombardy by a Mmacadamised Route by W. R. Richardson, 1869.

An illustration from Premiers Voyages Au Pays Des Glaces by Charles Baye (1888).

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Here's a precursor to the dual suns of Star Wars' Tatooine, from Object Lessons in Geography for Standards I, II, & III by Thomas Francis George Dexter (1899).

"But yonder beam forbids me to despair": from Sir Walter Raleigh: A Tragedy by William John Dixon, 1897.

The phenomenon of sunlight shining haloes through clouds of ice crystals helped to inspire John Dee's famous hieroglyphic monad.