The science concerned with celestial bodies and the observation and interpretation of the radiation received in the vicinity of the earth from the component parts of the universe (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)
    

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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?].

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

Mart, D. F.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

Les fondements de l'optique moderne : paralipomènes a Vitellion (1604) / Kepler ; traduction, introduction et notes par Catherine Chevalley ; préface de René Taton et Pierre Costabel.

Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846.

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

Mart, D. F.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

Les fondements de l'optique moderne : paralipomènes a Vitellion (1604) / Kepler ; traduction, introduction et notes par Catherine Chevalley ; préface de René Taton et Pierre Costabel.

Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846.