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Concept

Meteors

Images

  • Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky. Colour engraving, 1868.
  • Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.
  • Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint after H. Robinson, 1783.
  • Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.
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Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    Specimen philosophicum inaugurale, de meteoris ignitis ... / submittit Fridericus Bernardus Albinus.

    Albinus, Frederik Bernard, 1715-1778. | Date: 1740
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.

    Wyatt, Matthew Cotes, 1777-1862. | Date: May 1 1850 | Reference: 46244i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).

    | Date: 1910 | Reference: 571996i
    • Books

    The world of waters, or, Recreations in hydrology : What is a voltaic battery? : 'Observations of shooting stars on te nights of the 10th and 11th of August, 1839' : 'On the periodic shooting stars, and on shooting stars in general / Rosina Maria Zornlin.

    Zornlin, Rosina Maria. | Date: 2004
    • Books

    A goodly gallerye : William Fulke's book of meteors / edited with an introduction and notes by Theodore Hornberger.

    Fulke, William, 1538-1589. | Date: 1979
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