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Images about Astronomy

298 images from works
  • Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of the sun, and various effects of sunlight. Coloured engraving.
  • Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by C. Audran the elder after F. Villamena, 1655-56.
  • Astronomy: the surface of the moon. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including an shipwreck, a mob by St Paul's Cathedral, people dying from Cholera [?], and Hibernia pleading with Britannia [?]. Coloured lithograph, [c.1872?].
  • Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.
  • The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.
  • Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics / To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639; and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761. By James Ferguson.
  • Christophori Clavii ... In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius. Nunc iterum ab ipso Auctore recognitus, et multis ac varÿs locis locupletatus / [Christoph Clavius].
  • Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1878.
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Works from the collections

1,213 works

    • Ephemera

    Supplement for March, 1838 : ... theories to explain the motions of the heavenly bodies ... / [The Saturday Magazine].

    | Date: 1838
    • Ephemera

    Supplement, July, 1838 : popular astronomy : part II / The Saturday Magazine.

    | Date: 1838
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0006118: The Milky Way in Cygnus, from Fisher: Exploring the Heavens (1938)

    | Date: 27 February 1939 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/17
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Mart, D. F.

    Mart, D. F. | Date: 1890 | Reference: MS.3461
    • Ephemera

    Popular astronomy : Part I / The Saturday Magazine.

    | Date: 1838
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