Images from the collections
![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)
Works from the collections
36 works
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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- Books
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Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.
Robert HookeDate: 1678- E-books
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An essay concerning the late apparition in the heavens , On the sixth of March. Proving by Mathematical, Logical, and Moral Arguments, that it cou'd not have been produced meerly by the ordinary Course of Nature, but must of necessity be a Prodigy. Humbly offer'd to the Consideration of the Royal Society.
Date: 1716- Books
Chronology of eclipses and comets, AD 1-1000 / D. Justin Schove.
D. Justin SchoveDate: 1984
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Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 46240i