Astronomy Collection (page 8)

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

Cultural Activities 16C
Mercury rides over in cockerel-driven chariot as citizens practice arts & sciences: painting, sculpture, music, medicine, astronomy & others

Greenwich Observ. 1710
The Royal Observatory in Flamsteeds time, facing east; the Thames can be glimpsed on the left

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

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

Typical landscape on the planet Mars
A typical landscape on the planet Mars, in one of the marshy areas

Different aspects of the planet Mars, showing the variations in the character of its surface

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

Terrestrial Globe
Terrestrial globe

Chicago Exhibition - 7
The Yerkes telescope is an impressive exhibit at the Chicago Exhibition, 1893

Foucaults Telescope
Leon Foucaults telescope, constructed in Paris by Secretan

Herschel / Telescope / 1863
William Herschels 40 foot telescope as it was in 1863, Herschel House, Slough

Observatory / Feldhausen
Sir John Herschels Observatory at Feldhausen, Cape of Good Hope

Futuristic telescope for astronomy
An astronomer at work, using a futuristic machine that will display the stars and planets on a table top

Is Mars Signalling ?
is Mars Signalling to US ?

Transit of Venus
A diagram illustrating the visible transit of Venus across the Sun

Muses - Urania
Urania muse of astronomy

Astronomical Symbols
ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS

Armillary Sphere (Horiz)
ARMILLARY SPHERE horizontal

Planetarium by Jones
A planetarium by Jones

Megnie / Telescope / Diderot
Megnies Equatorial telescope

Nairn / Telescope / Diderot
Nairns equatorial telescope

Greenwich Obs / Gt Equat
The great equatorial

Greenwich Obs / Geometrie
A view of Greenwich Observatory

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 )

Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium, Chicago, built at a cost of one million dollars to demonstrate the beauties and mysteries of the universe

BERNOUILLIs COMETS 1682
Bernouillis Cometary System observed in 1682 and set out in this Latin language German scientifc journal

Observing Venus
Astronomy at the Place du Chatelet in Paris. Street stargazers observe the planet Venus through a telescope

Street Telescope Exhibitor A young boy steps up for a telescopic view of the moon

Evanston Observatory
Observatory at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Idaho, USA, showing its dome with ivy around the base

Astronomy / 13th Century
Observing the heavens with primitive instruments

SHEPHERD
A French shepherd calculates the south at midnight, from observation of the stars

Tycho Brahe at Work
Tycho Brahe at work in his observatory at Uranienborg, Sweden 1576

Tycho Brahe / Apprentice
Tycho Brahe as an apprentice at Leipzig

Tycho Brahe & Kepler
Tycho Brahe and Kepler in discussion in the Prague Observatory

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