Planet Collection (page 3)

Spain. Italica. Roman city founded c. 206 BC. House of the Planetarium. Mosaic. Detail. Mercury. Andalusia

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) German mathematician and astronomer. Considered the founder of modern astronomy. Colored engraving

Fw Herschel / Scriven
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer with a plan of the planet Uranus, discovered in 1781 Date: 1738 - 1822

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

Earth in Gaseous State
The Earth circulating in space in a gaseous state

Polar Currents
Kirchers sketch of the ocean currents swirling round the North Pole Date: 1665

Cartoon, The Interview, WW1
Cartoon, The Interview. A professor on another planet gives a journalist his views on life on Earth. On the subject of the First World War, the journalist asks: Who will be the winner, people or fire

Cartoon, The opinion of Saturn, WW1
Cartoon, The opinion of Saturn. The Saturnians contemplate Earth from their rings, and find the sight of war discouraging. Date: 1918

Hole in the Earth 1912
Prof Flammarion proposes to bore a hole eight kilometres into the Earth in order to study the composition of the inside of the planet Date: 1912

Martians watching scenes of life on Earth
A group of Martians watching scenes of life on Earth through special viewfinders. Date: 1906

Annihilator rocket leaving for Mars
The Annihilator rocket leaves Earth for Mars Date: 1910

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

Advertisement for Lucerna Swiss double milk chocolate - delights the whole world. Date: early 20th century

Large globe, PanAm terminal, Miami, Florida, USA
People looking at a large globe on display in the lobby of the Pan-American Airways terminal in Miami, Florida, USA. Date: 1936

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

WW2 greetings card, V for Victory, Thinking of You! Date: circa 1942

HERSCHEL, Sir Frederick William (1738-1822). German astronomer, technical expert, and composer. He discovered of the planet Uranus. Oil

HERSCHEL, William. German astronomer
HERSCHEL, Sir Frederick William (1738-1822). German astronomer, technical expert, and composer. He discovered of the planet Uranus. Engraving

Atlas Novus, 17th c Planet Mercury
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. Detail depicting and allegory of Mercury

AFS men and others looking at a globe, WW2
AFS men and others looking at a globe, Second World War. Date: 1940s

Captain James Cook -- an allegory
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), explorer. An allegory, showing Neptune raising him up to Immortality, a Genius crowning him with a Wreath of Oak, and Fame introducing him to History

Poster, Champion plug
Poster, Champion, Britains favourite plug. Date: circa 1950

Map with clocks at Baden Powell House, London
A modern map with clocks showing the time in different parts of the globe at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. Above it are the words: From All Corners of the Earth You Have Journeyed

Locating true magnetic North Pole by G. H. Davis
The locating of the true magnetic North Pole: an RAF discovery. Illustrating the 17, 720-mile polar expedition of the British Lancaster Aries and her crew. Date: 1945

Inner Earth
The inner earth breaks through the Earths crust. Date: 1735

Monkeys on the Rocks
Planet of the apes - monkeys running amok on a huge rock formation in a zoo in Australia. Date: early 1930s

Soviet QSL card - plaque on Venus
A commemorative card from a Soviet Radio Station (a QSL card) commemorating the sending of a plaque bearing a portrait of Lenin to the Planet Venus

Watery Earth
An artists impression of how the Earth looked from space in a watery state

Diagram showing the Earths interior
Crust - continents 35km, oceans 6km. Mantle - peridotite 2900km. Outer core - iron (liquid) 2000km. Inner core - iron (solid) 1370km

Permian Britain
An artists impression of Permian (290 to 248 million years ago) Britain from space, with desert lands and the Zechstein sea

Jurassic Britain
An artists impression of Jurassic (206 to 144 million years ago) Britain from space, with forested swamps and warm seas

A cross section of the Earth showing the mantle (the thick outer layer), the core (the inner layer) and the inner core (the centre)

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

Imperial Airways Poster, travel in comfort
Imperial Airways Poster, Travel In Comfort, serving Europe, Africa, India and the East, depicting a globe with routes marked. 20th century

Parallels of Latitude
Parallels of latitude, including the Equator Date: circa 1690

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

SKYLARK THREE (Dr Edward E Smith) The spaceship from Earth slices through the hostile craft from the planet Fenechrone Date: 1930

Moonlight Romance
The first buss and the last bus - a back-to-earth tragedy. A couple kiss in the moonlight having floated away from the earth in a mist of romance

Planet Saturn
Saturns rings observed from the surface of the planet

Wylds Great Globe, Leicester Square, London, 1851
Engraving showing the building built for Wylds Great Globe in the early 1850 s. This building housed a 10, 000 sq. foot painting of planet Earth

EARTHs INTERIOR, 1735
English geologist John Woodwards conception of the composition of the globe, with molten lava surrounded by a thick crust

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 !

When Meteorites Crash
Every day 1000s of meteorites hit our planet : most are small, but if a large one were to fall into the ocean near a major city, the destruction would be immense

Sailboat on Mercury
The insectoid residents of the planet Mercury will develop their own technology to navigate their chemically polluted waters : mica will be the material of choice

Ship of Jupiter
On the planet Jupiter, electrical power propels the ocean-going vessels through the sea of sticky heavy oil which would clog the propellors used on Earth

Life on the Stars 5
Life on a planet of the giant star Betelgeuse : people live in movable homes in which they can migrate from place to place, in tall legged homes

Life on Jupiter
The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is 318 times as large as Earth, so perhaps supports a huge population which may surpass our civilisation in every way

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