Planet Collection

Flat Earth map of the world showing it to be a plane
A MAP OF THE WORLD SHOWING IT TO BE A PLANE - and those of us who suppose it to be a globe are clearly mistaken. Date: 1893

Hollow Earth
THE HOLLOW EARTH Neuperts model

Saturn in natural color, photographed by Cassini
Saturn. Sixth planet from the Sun. Photograph taken by the Cassini-Huygens

Poster design, Chicago Worlds Fair 1933, featuring a classical figure with arms raised, holding a model of the city. Date: 1933

Depiction of a flat planet Earth, with curious little wheels for the ships to go round without (hopefully) falling off into space

CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665). Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica. 1661. Fol 24. Hemisphaerium stellatum boreale antiquum. Representation of the Northern Hemisphere

French map of the planet Mars
A French map of the planet Mars, showing two views

Earths Crust
Cross-section of the solid crust of planet Earth Date: 1879

International Air Rally Poster 1937
Poster, High Speed Thrills! International Air Rally, Lympne, 28-29 August. Spectacular RAF Hendon Acrobatics, Racing, Live Parachuting, Foreign Aces. Organised by the Cinque Ports Flying Club. 1937

Forest Primeval
This is the forest primeval... or, to be more precise, in the Carboniferous Period of the Antediluvian Epoch of our planet

Airship of Uranus
Airships of planet Uranus are powered by taking in air at the nose, compressing it and blasting it out at the rear. Maybe we on Earth could develop some such technology ?

Main components of the Solar System
Panoramic artwork showing the relative distances of the planets from the Sun

Schiaparellis two hemispheres of the planet Mars
The two hemispheres of the planet Mars as drawn by the Italian astronomer and historian of science, Giovanni Schiaparelli

Poster, Jacquelin Le Mans 24 hour race
Motorsport - Jacquelin Le Mans 24 hour race colour poster, 15-16 June 1974. 16 x 24 inches. Date: 1974

Fantasy Spacecraft, Fantastic Adventures Scifi Magazine Covers
A Spaceship blasts away from a dying planet in this Science Fiction Magazine cover

Master of the Asteroid, Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
MASTER OF THE ASTEROID - A stranded astronaut is honoured as a god when he crashes on a distant planet

Planet Mars seen from one of its moons
The planet Mars as seen from one of its moons, a hundred times larger than the planet Earths Moon as seen from Earth

Route map, Imperial Airways. 1938

WW1 poster, Red Cross recruitment
Poster, Red Cross recruitment -- Join! The Greatest Mother. circa 1918

Earths Core
Hollow Earth theories suggest that there could be entrances to our planet at the Poles, giving us potential access to Earths core : who knows what we might find ?

Blunt / Planet / Parallax
A diagram showing the parallax of the planets

Earths Central Fire
Cross-section of the globe showing the central fire, the lateral fires, and the volcanoes where the fire breaks out on the surface

Planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with walls on either side of the Heavens, a transparent firmament, a reservoir of waters above the planet, and above them the Empyrean vault

Comparative Orbits
A diagram of the relative orbit distances of planets in the Solar System and the variable light hitting the Earth during different seasons

La Guerre dans Mars (The War on Mars), by Arnould Galopin. The evil Zapatos attack the benevolent Megacephales. From Aventures Fantastiques d un Jeune Parisien

Solar System 1860
The solar system as known to Victorian astronomers, Neptune is the farthest out - they have yet to learn about Pluto, which will not be located until 1930

Palmistry. Planetary and zodiacal diagram of the left hand. Engraving

When The Lights Go On Again
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World), by Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus and Bennie Benjemen

The Great Globe, Swanage, Dorset - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Cover design, Father Christmas, Meccano magazine
Cover design, Father Christmas in a Meccano aeroplane dropping Meccano sets to boys Date: 1923

Advert, Air France, Lockheed Super Constellation aeroplane Date: 1950s

Poster, Probst Circus, Hungary. 1972

Two views of the surface of the planet Mercury -- a sun-scorched area and a frosty area. Date: 1950s

Great Britain highlighted on the globe
A Greeting from the Dear Home-Land, showing Great Britain highlighted in red on a globe of the planet

British Dominions Book of Beginnings, Story without end

Envelope design, New York Empire City Rose
Envelope design, New York Empire City views in the form of a Rose. 1857

Spheres depicting the Earths orbit round the Sun. Date: 18th century

Armillary sphere with zodiac. Date: 1719

Armillary Sphere
An Armillary Sphere. Date: 18th century

Poster, Protect Your Heritage -- soldier with globe and rifle. Date: 20th century

Autour de la Lune ( Round the Moon ). The moon-projectile returns to its home-planet. Date: 1870

ITS A WOMANS WORLD
A feminist view of our planet - The World, surrounded by Emblematical Females. Date: circa 1800

PHAETONS FATAL DRIVE
Phaetons irresponsible drive in his father (the Sun)s chariot endangers the planet : Zeus has no choice, but to destroy him with a timely thunderbolt

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Date: circa 1760

PIERRE-CHARLES LEMONNIER
Pierre-Charles Lemonnier measures the speed of atmospheric electricity in a Carthusian monastery. Recorded Uranus before its discovery as a planet. Date: 1746

Et Angels from Mercury
Dante tells us that these angels are inhabitants of the planet Mercury

ANGELS / PLANET MERCURY
The angels in the Planet Mercury: So drew full more than thousand splendours towards us. (Canto V, lines 99-100) Date: First published: 1307-21?

THE MAGNETIC POLE
Determining the MAGNETIC POLE as opposed to the geographical pole - a problem scientists were well aware of in the 17th century Date: circa 1680

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