Astronomers Collection

The astronomers waiting for the eclipse
The eclipse expedition in India to observe the total eclipse of the sun. Mr. Norman Lockyer is shown seated a little to the left beneath the umbrella

Arab Astronomers / 1513
Arab astronomers measuring angles between objects in space or on land

Astronomers
Two astronomers, one of whom is an Arab gentleman, examine a star in the sky through a telescope

Astronomer-priests of Chaldea observe stars from the Tower of Babylon (Babel)

Comic postcard, The Astronomers - Venus, Jupiter and Mars Date: 20th century

Astronomer looking at the sky from an attic room. Date: circa 1860s

Looking at the moon -- Evening Hours. Date: circa 1850s

Astronomers Using Astrolabes Date: 1450

CI8 ASTRONOMERS
Astronomers of the 18th century observe the skies and discern the figures of the Zodiac Date: 18th century

Amateur Astronomers in 17th century France
A gathering of amateur astronomers in 17th century France Date: 17th century

Halleys Comet over Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910
Star-gazers watch Halleys Comet near the Flagstaff on Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910. Date: 1910

Saint Dominic de Guzman (1170-1221). Founder of the Friars Preachers, called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers (OP). Colored engraving. 19th century

Two astronomers on a Christmas card
Two astronomers with their telescopes on a Christmas card by Ernest Griset, observing the moon and stars. Date: circa 1890s

Sir Fw Herschel / Slough 2
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomers home, Herschel House, at Slough: view from the garden Date: 1738 - 1822

Sir Fw Herschel / Slough 1
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomers home, Herschel House, at Slough: view from the street Date: 1738 - 1822

Sir Fw Herschel / Bath
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomers home at 7 New King Street, Bath Date: 1738 - 1822

The Right Reverend John Wilkins
Title page and frontispiece of The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins. The frontispiece is a portrait of Wilkins. Date: 1708

Female Astronomer
A young female astronomer looking through a large telescope in an unspecified observatory. Date: early 1930s

Johannes Hevelius depicted in his nightclothes looking at the sky through his telescope in his observatory in Gdansk.. From: Selenographia | Johannis Hevelii Selenographia, sive

Red Patch on Jupiter
A mysterious red patch on Jupiters surface which some astronomers think might be the first stage of the creation of a new Moon for the planet Date: 1921

Ptolemy at Work
The 2nd century Egyptian astronomor Ptolemaius is guided by the personification of Astronomy. Date: 2nd century

Folies Bergere - dancer
A dancer from the Astronomers Revue at the Folies Bergere, Paris. The dancer is Mademoiselle Geczy, a name that hints of an Eastern European origin

Indian Observatory from the Medieval period, with the title Bramins Observatory

Earth Seen by Mars
Martian astronomers, on the basis of their observations, may well think that an Earth city looks like this. As though we would walk about with no clothes on !

Astronomer Looks at Sun
An astronomer looks at the sun through a telescope, while two colleagues confer at his side (illustration to Aesops Fable: The Monster in the Sun)

Indian Astronomer
An Indian Astronomer studies his charts

Observing the Heavens
Two young sixteenth century astronomers contemplate the sun, moon and stars while their elderly colleague contemplates the consolations of philosophy

16th Century Astronomer
As astronomer at his desk, consulting his books : a celestial sphere hangs over his head, and he can see the stars themselves through his window

Looking at the Moon
A group of amateur astronomers look through a telescope at the moon and see a face in it (illustration to the fable, An animal in the moon )

Eclipse in Algeria
At Sfax, Algeria, astronomers observe an eclipse

C17 Astronomers (Dore)
A group of learned astronomers in 17th century France

Astronomy
First notions of the celestial sphere are formulated by peoples of the Middle East

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