Astronomy Collection (page 6)

Lick Observatory, San Jose, Santa Clara, California, USA
Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA. Date: circa 1907

Parisians panic at the sight of a comet, thinking that it presages the end of the world. Date: 1819

Two faces of the planet Mars
The two faces of the planet Mars, seen against a night sky with stars. Date: 1927

James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer
James Ferguson (1710-1776), Scottish astronomer, with a sketch of planets orbiting the sun. Date: circa 1760

Ole Romer Observatory, Aarhus, Denmark, built in 1911. Date: 1911

Astronomical circles invented by Tobias Mayer and Borda.. Astronomical instruments- Tobias Mayers reflecting circle of 1752 and Jean-Charles Bordas improved version of 1777

Sir William Herschels Great Forty Foot telescope.. Sir William Herschels telescope or the Great Forty-Foot telescope built between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England

Planet Saturn with its seven rings.. Planet Saturn with its seven rings. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Friedrich Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798

The moon and its mountains.. The moon and its mountains. Profiles of the heights of the mountains of the moon, the earth and Venus

Cometarium.. Cometarium by W. Jones, a mechanical device designed to illustrate the motion of a comet about the Sun. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Planetarium with the Copernican system. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)

HEWISH, Anthony (1924). British radio astronomer. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974. Oil

Apianus, Peter von Bienewitz or Bennewitz (1501-1552). German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. Astronomicum Caesareum

Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1665). French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. Page of the book Petri Gassendi Institutio astronomica juxta hypotheseis tam veterum quam

Johann Adam Schall, German Jesuit missionary to China
SCHALL VON BELL, Adam (1591-1661). German Jesuit and astronomer. He spent most of his life as a missionary in China and became an adviser to the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty. Engraving

SCHEINER, Christoph (1575-1650). Physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Projecting the image of the Sun through a refracting telescope on to a screen in order to study sunpots. Engraving

Atlas Novus, 17th c The Sun
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. Allegory of Sun. Detail of the ancient elements

Airy Transit Circle at Greenwich Royal Observatory
Observing the sun with the Airy Transit Circle at the Greenwich Royal Observatory. Date: 1885

John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719), English clergyman and astronomer; first astronomer royal (1675). Date: 1712

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

Angel on the Astronomical Clock in Prague
Angel on the Orloj or Astronomical Clock on the Old Town City Hall in Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic Date: 2012

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California, USA. It includes a planetarium, a hall of science and a refracting telescope

The Great Yerkes Telescope, Chicago University, USA
The Great Yerkes Telescope, Chicago University, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Map of the Moon Date: circa 1900

17th century Telescope
Print of a 17th century Telescope Date: 17th century

Solar Eclipse Date: circa 1890

Telescope on a Tripiod

Telescope on a Tripod

Telescope

Telescope with Weather Station

Telescope on a roof

Telescope at Yerkes Observatory, USA
The eye-end of the 40 inch telescope with double-slide plate carrier - Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA

The Planetarium by G. H. Davis
A device for the teaching of astronomy: the planetarium. How the courses of stars and planets are projected onto an artificial sky : a planetarium in diagram. Date: 1927

Edward C Pickering, astronomer, psychical researcher
Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), American astronomer, physicist and psychical researcher. He was a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research. Date: 19th century

An Astrolabe
An astrolabe, an astrological instrument, used for measuring the altitude of the stars, Avebury Manor, Wiltshire, England

Francis Wollaston
FRANCIS WOLLASTON writer on astronomy Date: 1731 - 1815

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

Peking Observatory, China - Beijing Ancient Observatory
Peking Observatory - (Beijing) China. The Beijing Ancient Observatory - a pretelescopic observatory located in Beijing, China

Sir Robert Stawell Ball - Irish Astronomer (1840-1913) Date: circa 1910

PONTE, Giovanni dal (1376-1437). The Seven Liberal Arts. ca. 1435. Panel for the front side of a chest. In the middle: the Astronomy, armilar sphere and Ptolemy

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis comte de lEmpire (1736-1813). French mathematician and astronomer. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Armilar sphere and planetarium (1774). SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona Maritime Museum

Galileo points to the heavens

Arabic treatise on astronomy (Al-Andalus). Manuscript. Hispano-Moresque art. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

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

Departing by balloon

Excursion to the moon
Fanciful depiction of Chevalier Humguffier (or Humgussier) and the Marquis de Gull making an excursion to the moon in their new aerial vehicle. 1784

Landscape with stream, stars and hunters, by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), astronomer and artist, uncle of Robert. 19th century

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