Astronomy Collection (page 7)

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

The universal favorite. Date c1889 Jun. 15

Dining Room, New College Lane, Oxford
An unfinished watercolour sketch of Reverend Baden Powells dining room at New College Lane, Oxford, with mother and children sitting round a table

Sketch of Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1846

George Bishops Observatory, Regents Park, London
Sketch of George Bishops Observatory, near South Villa, Regents Park, London. By Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert

The sun and the moon
Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus, 1484, the first printed book in Sweden. The author was the Italian Maynus de Mayneriis (dead 1370). This woodcut illustrates the morality about the Sun and the Moon

Finland - The Tahtitorni ( Observatory ) at Turku
Finland - The Old Tahtitorni ( Observatory ) at Turku (Abo) Date: circa 1906

Science Verus Religion
A group of Italian priests making astronomical observations through a telescope at the Torre Metrologica, Rome, Italy. Date: 1930s

Exhibits in Dome of Discovery and Shot Tower, London
Various exhibits in the Dome of Discovery and the Shot Tower at the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Top left shows a reconstruction of Captain Cooks ship, Endeavour

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

Schiaparellis map of the planet Mars
A map of the surface of the planet Mars by the Italian astronomer and historian of science, Giovanni Schiaparelli. Date: 1881/2

Tycho Brahes Globe
Tycho Brahes celestial globe Date: 1584

Sending Message to Mars
Communicating with Mars - sending a message with a massive beam of light. Date: 1907

Margaret Bryan - 1
MARGARET BRYAN Author of books on mathematics and astronomy, depicted with her two daughters. She lived at Blackheath, Kent. Date: flourished 1790 - 1815

The great telescope at the Paris Exhibition. Theoretically the instrument should display an image of the moon at an apparent average distance of about forty miles

Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 August
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Mount Wilson, California
150 foot tower telescope, Mt Wilson observatory, Mount Wilson, California, America

Delhi Observatory - Janter Manter. Built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur in 1710

Man with large telescope
A man in a flat cap sits and looks through an unfeasibly large telescope which appears to be installed in his back garden. Bet his wife was pleased about that purchase

Language of Stars 1918
She gazes at the moon and sees an image of her soldier love reflected in it. Three cherubs use a telescope and translate the writing in the stars - Je t aime

Astronomy Herschel
George III visits Herschels observatory

Benares - Banks of the Ganges, India
Bathing on the banks of the River Ganges at Benares. This card also shows the Raja Jai Singh Observatory. The massive structure was one of a number of astronomical observatories built by Maharaja

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

Le Verrier & L Philippe
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier explains the discovery of Neptune to the French King Loius Philippe at the Tuileries

Space Communication
Artificially-induced auroras offer a viable means of communicating with other worlds : by modifying their pulses, messages can be effectively transmitted

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)

Rosses Giant Telescope
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse, built his giant telescope, known as the Leviathan, at Parsonstown, near Dublin and with it made several important discoveries. Date: 1845

Heveliuss Telescope
The great 200 foot (60+ metres) telescope of Hevelius

Using Armillary Sphere
An astronomer using an ARMILLARY SPHERE whose rings show the equator, tropics, polar circles and so forth

Indian Astronomer
An Indian Astronomer studies his charts

John Greaves
JOHN GREAVES Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and traveller

Astronomy / Caxton 1481
The study of Astronomy from Caxtons Myrrour of the Worlde, printed in 1481

Observing Room / Greenwich
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The old observing room

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