Planets Collection (page 2)

Common flax or linseed, Linum usitatissimum. Lin cultive. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Sycamore maple tree, Acer pseudoplatanas, Erable sycomore. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Tree cotton, Gossypium arboreum, Cotoninier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Corn spurry, Spergula arvensis, Spergule des champs. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Common corn-cockle, Agrostemma githago, Githago segetum, Nielle des bles, Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Dyers rocket or dyers weed, Reseda luteola, Gaude. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Wood anemone or windflower, Anemone nemorosa, Anemone sylvie. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

ITS A WOMANS WORLD
A feminist view of our planet - The World, surrounded by Emblematical Females. Date: circa 1800

THE MAGNETIC POLE
Determining the MAGNETIC POLE as opposed to the geographical pole - a problem scientists were well aware of in the 17th century Date: circa 1680

EARTHS HEMISPHERES 1870
Earths two hemispheres, one largely composed of land, the other predominantly of water Date: circa 1870

PARALLELS OF LONGITUDE
Parallels of longitude, relative to the Equator Date: circa 1690

BLUNT / ATMOSPHERIC REF
A diagram explaining atmospheric refraction using pictures of ships at sea to illustrate the concept Date: 1849

BLUNT / VENUS CROSSES SUN
The transit of Venus over the Suns disc. Date: 1849

PTOLEMAIC SYSTEM /
Plan of the Heavens, showing Ptolemys explanation for the eccentric movement of the Sun round the Earth, in relation to the Fixed Stars and Planets Date: 17th century

Futuristic telescope for astronomy
An astronomer at work, using a futuristic machine that will display the stars and planets on a table top. Date: 1899

Flat Earth Puzzle
The Puzzled Cleric - torn between his faith and science - how can he reconcile what God (via the Bible) tells him and what the scientists tell him about the Earth ? Date: 1895

Flat Earth Magazine
A typical issue of the Flat Earth Societys journal, The Earth not a Globe Review which also argues that universal gravitation is a delusion. Date: December 1896

Enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas
The enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with the planet in the form of a tabernacle

Earths Interior
A cross-section of the planet, showing the central fire and the huge internal lakes which drain from the oceans

Total solar eclipse in England, 1927
Diagram explaining the science behind the solar eclipse due to be witnessed in England on 29 June 1927. This was to be the first total solar eclipse seen in England for 200 years. 1927

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

Les Terres du Ciel - Camille Flammarion
Front cover - Les Terres du Ciel - Camille Flammarion. Date: 1884

Jupiters Sea of Lava by Scriven Bolton
With 100-mile mountains as waves - Jupiters Sea of Lava. An astronomers conception of the surface of Jupiter, the giant of the planets by Scriven Bolton, the well-known astronomer-artist. Date: 1923

French bank note, 50 Francs
French bank note, Banque de France, 50 Francs, issued on 19 May 1949. With a portrait of the French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the front

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

Life on Ganymede
The Cat-Women of Ganymede, one of Jupiters moons : our artist has drawn both from science and from imagination (a gram of the former, a tonne of the latter...)

Life on Venus is certain to be largely based on its extensive oceans : we can expects its inhabitants to be aquatic creatures of various kinds

Life on Titan, one of Saturns satellites - a world of swamps and of ferocious beasts and giant plants. Scientists speculate that it may be warm enough to support life

Man and Mars
Man contemplates Mars and considers the possibility of life there

Fantastic Adventures - The Robot Men of Bubble City by Peter Worth. A spaceship shaped like an angry face blasts off from an unknown planet

Fantastic Adventures - Return of Sinbad by Chester S. Geier. A man in Arabian dress flies in space on a giant bird of prey. The distressed bird is being attacked by the lasers of several spaceships

Startling Stories - The Giant Atom by Malcolm Jameson. A man holds a woman protectively as they both look fearfully out of a spaceship window, the view ahead shows the sun orbiting planet earth

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

Alien Spacecraft
With monstrous aerial machines the inhabitants of other planets will reach our Earth and make it one of their colonies - an alien spacecraft attacks Earth Date: 1933

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

Letters from the Planets
Venusian space travellers, who have landed on one of Jupiters moons, walk from night into day Date: 1892

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

Ptolemaeus system Date: 2nd century AD

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

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

John Russell Hind
JOHN RUSSELL HIND English astronomer, working in Mr Bishops observatory in Regents Park, London, an indefatigable discoverer of planets. Date: 1823 - 1895

Formation of planets myth. Engraving by J. vander Schley, from Pierre de Hondt, Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere avec la description du Cabinet du Roy

Michelangelo (1475-1564). Sistine Chapel. 1508-1512. VATICAN CITY. Vatican Palaces. Detail of the vault. The Creation of the universe and the planets. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco

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