Planetary Collection

CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665). Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica. 1661. Fol 24. Hemisphaerium stellatum boreale antiquum. Representation of the Northern Hemisphere

Boulton and Watt steam engine with planetary gear, 1795 Date: 1795

General view of the engine Date: 1795

Transit of Venus 1874
A diagram showing the areas of the world which will be able to view the transit of Venus across the face of the sun on the 8th December 1874

Kepler Planetary System
Model of Keplers planetary system

Red Hell of Jupiter, Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover
THE RED HELL OF JUPITER - The Planetary Explorers disintegrate the Rogans with the death tube Date: 1931

Geocentric System
The pre-Copernican system of the Planets - Earth at the centre orbited by the other planets including the sun, and surrounded by the stars

Junction Picture
A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches the Heavens. (Note that this is not a medieval illustration but a very clever 19th century pastiche !)

Solar System 1860
The solar system as known to Victorian astronomers, Neptune is the farthest out - they have yet to learn about Pluto, which will not be located until 1930

Palmistry. Planetary and zodiacal diagram of the left hand. Engraving

Lune Date: 1683

Orbital Activity Demo

Astronomers Using Astrolabes Date: 1450

The universe with planets, zodiac signs and all the heavenly hierarchy. Engraving. 16th century

The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi (1318-1388). Used to determine the position of planets according to he Ptolemaic theory of the Universe. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci

Descartes System
The Planetary System of Rene Descartes, with the sun at centre, and with orbits shown for Earths Moon, and for the Satellites of Jupiter and of Saturn. Date: circa 1640

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

Simeon - Denis Poisson (1781 - 1840) French mathematician. Worked on electrostatics, planetary orbits, magnetism and gravitational attraction

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

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

Gear, front and side view

Edge view of the rotative motion Date: 1795

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

Lord Kelvin Speculates
Lord Kelvin speculates that life may have come to Earth on the moss-grown ruins of another world - brought here on a planetary fragment

Planets and Zodiac
The Solar System, showing how the planets move between the houses of the Zodiacal system, thereby inevitably affecting everything that happens and everyone who is born

Blunt / Planetary System
The planetary system

Bussingers System
Caspar Bussingers system, demonstrating his theories concerning the obliquely elliptical orbits of the planets round the Sun

Sun and Zodiac
The SUN in its elliptical orbit over the Earth, turning through the twelve signs of the Zodiac

Blunt / Planetary Motion
The laws of planetary motion

Cosmic Influences
The planetary influences related to the various parts of the human anatomy

Ptolemys Solar System
Representation of Ptolemys planetary system which features the Earth at the centre of the Universe

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