Planets Collection (page 4)

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

Earth Touches Heavens
Earths junction with the heavens

3rd Day of the Creation
The fourth day

Canals of Mars 20C
The canals of Mars

Jupiter Observed
Jupiter seen from one of its moons

Surface of Mercury
An artists impression of the surface of Mercury

Saturn, Two Views
Two views of the planet, one from sideways-on, the other looking downwards, showing the surrounding rings

Saturns Rings 8
The rings of Saturn as seen from the planets surface

Venus, the Dark Side
The sunless side of Venus

Venus, the Sunlit Side
The sunlit side of Venus

Albumazar at Work
The great Arabian scholar and astrologer Albumazar (805-885) studies the configurations of the stars and planets

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

Continents Joined
Sniders conception of how Earths continents were originally one - proposed long before Wegener, longer still before it was accepted by the scientific establishment

Newly Created Earth 1550
God and his angels look down on the innocent planet he has just created, while demons contemplate the possibilities of messing it all up

Blunt / Jupiter / Eclipse
A diagram showing an eclipse of Jupiters satellites

Blunt / Atmospherical Ref
A diagram explaining atmospherical refraction

Blunt / Earths Shadows
The Earths shadows

Blunt / Planets / Retrograde
The apparent retrograde motion of the planets

Blunt / Sun from Planets
The Sun as seen from different planets

Blunt / Relative Planets
The relative sizes of the planets. A-Mercury, B-Venus, C-Earth D- Mars, H-Uranus, top-Jupiter and bottom-Saturn

Blunt / Phases of Saturn
Phases of the planet Saturn

Blunt / Uranus / Plate 12
A view of Uranus, or Herschel as it was also known

Blunt / Saturn / Plate 11
A view of Saturn

Blunt / Two View of Mars / 9
Two views of Mars

Blunt / Venus / Plate 8
Two views of Venus

Blunt / Earth & Asteroids
The Earth in relation to the Sun and inferior planets and asteroids

Blunt / 1st 4 Planets / Mvem
A diagram showing Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

Blunt / Earths Rotundity
The Earths rotundity

Blunt / Earths Dimensions
The Earths figure and dimensions

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

Atlas & Planets
A Titan, condemned by Zeus to carry the entire heavens on his back : the planets in their orbits are clearly marked !

Earth Seen from Moon
seen above the Mountains of the Moon

Planet Mars
The planet Mars seen from Earth

Planet Venus
The planet Venus seen from Earth

Planet Jupiter
The planet Jupiter seen from Earth

Blunt / Planetary Motion
The laws of planetary motion

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

Johann Elert Bode / Fricke
JOHANN ELERT BODE German astronomer Worked on relative distances between planets and the sun

Surface markings on the planet Mars, showing two different faces

Supposed landscape on the planet Mars
A supposed landscape on the planet Mars, showing the canals

Landscape on the planet Mars
View of a landscape on the planet Mars, showing the canals

Night sky above the planet Mars
The night sky above the planet Mars, showing its two small moons and, at the appropriate seasons, planet Earth gleaming like the evening star

Valier rocket taking off from the moon
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes using a lunar base for rockets travelling to distant planets. (3 of 3)

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