Astronomy Collection (page 84)

River Nile at sunset, Egypt

Diagram showing mans position in the universe, 1617-19. Artist: Robert Fludd
Diagram showing mans position in the universe, 1617-19. Relation of man (the microcosm), with the universe (the macrocosm), showing spheres of Sun, Moon and planets

Scene of an Athenian street

Stonehenge at Midsummer Sunrise

Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist, 1867. Artist: Andre Gill
Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist, 1867. Born in Besancon, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a central figure in the French Romantic movement

Scene from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe, c1850. Munchausen, recovering his silver casket which had bounced up to the moon

Gleaners at Sunset, 1889. Artist: Leon-Augustin Lhermitte
Gleaners at Sunset, 1889. Women collecting the grain that the harvesters have left behind

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. The space capsule Columbiad orbiting close to the Moon. From De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) by Jules Verne

Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician recanting, 1633 (1880). One of the greatest scientists of all time, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Frontispiece of Galileos Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi, 1632. Artist: Stefano della Bella
Frontispiece of Galileos Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi, 1632. The three figures, from left to right, are Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus

Cupid shooting an arrow carrying a love letter, American Valentine card, 1908. He stands by a red heart inscribed with a message and surrounded by sweet violet (Viola odorata) which

Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913), Irish astronomer and mathematician, c1890. A populariser of science, Ball served as Lord Rosses astronomer at Parsonstown, in Ireland

Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), French astronomer, writer and politician
Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) French astronomer, writer and politician. Bailly was a member of all the three great French academies, the Academie des Sciences

Foucaults pendulum in the Pantheon, Paris, 1851 (1887). Jean Bernard Leon Foucault used this pendulum to demonstrate both the rotation of the Earth and the concept of inertia

Foucaults pendulum which demonstrated the Earths rotation and the concept of inertia, c1895
Foucaults pendulum which demonstrated both the rotation of the Earth and the concept of inertia, c1895

Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1860), French physicist. Foucault measured the velocity of light and, in 1851, proved the rotation of the Earth on its axis using his pendulum

Repeat of Foucaults demonstration of the Earths rotation, May 1851 (c1890)
Repeat of Foucaults demonstration of the Earths rotation made at the Polytechnic Institution, London in May 1851 by Dr Bachhoffner. Engraving published c1890

Demonstrating the Earths rotation using Foucaults pendulum in a church, 1881

Eruption of Vesuvius, 1770s. Artist: Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Eruption of Vesuvius, 1770s. Vesuvius, the volcano most famous for its eruption of 79 AD which destroyed Pompeii, erupted several times in the 1770s

The Wolf that Never Sleeps, 1899-1900. Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) at Mafeking, ever watchful, living up to his Matebele name Mpeesi ( The Wolf That Never Sleeps )

Bobby Jones teeing off, c1920s

Endymion, 1880. Artist: Joseph Swain
Endymion, 1880. Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, is the former Conservative Prime Minister. Now in opposition, he had used his free time to publish what would be his final novel, Endymion

A Legend of Camelot - Part 4, 1866. Artist: George du Maurier
A Legend of Camelot - Part 4, 1866. A night scene, the moon is in the top right corner smiling. A man wearing several hats leans over the heads of two figures who appear to be kneeling down at

Something for Paddy, 1864. Artist: John Tenniel
Something for Paddy, 1864. Daniel O Connell says: Its a Repaler ye call yourself, ye Spalpeen, and you re goin to Die for the Union

The Long Lost Sun, 1860
Britannia stands along Englands coastline and welcomes the sun, with a disgarded umbrella at her side. The sun smiles back at her

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