Icy small astronomical object
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![Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III on horseback with a smiling Queen Victoria, a flag-draped coffin, and a battle. Coloured lithograph, [c.1867?].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024820/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
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34 works
- Ephemera
The new comet : drawn at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich : A new planet : The supposed new ring of the planet Saturn : "The great comet" / S. S. ; G. B. Airy ; James Glaisher.
Date: [1844?]
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Astronomy: a large, bright, comet in the night sky over Winchester, being observed by two men. Engraving by H.R. Cook, 1811, after Pether.
Date: May 1, 1820Reference: 46238i- Ephemera
The comet, as it appeared through the telescope of Sir J. South ... : A double comet : Magnificent comet : Double comet : Telescopic view of Jupiter and his satellites .. : Splendid meteor : The comet : Lunar rainbow / James Glaisher.
Date: [between 1845 and] 1846- Ephemera
Mr. C. H. Adam's orrery : A new comet : The new comet discovered on Sunday last : On comets : Lunar rainbow / Sir James South.
Date: [1844?]- Ephemera
Comet discovered at Shrewsbury : Remarkable halos and parhelia seen on the 29th March : Lunar rainbow : Aurora borealis : The rainbow : Lunar rainbow seen at Milbrook near Southampton / James Glaisher ; E. J. Lowe ; Sir R. Phillips & Co. ; White.
Date: [between 1823 and 1852]