Sphere Collection (page 2)

Earth from space - the Mediterranean, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth from space - the Mediterranean, c1980s. Cloud cover over Europe, with the Mediterranean sea visible in the centre

Pixellated Earth from space, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Pixellated Earth from space, c1980s

Earth from Apollo 15, 26 July 1971. Creator: NASA
Earth from Apollo 15, 26 July 1971. Planet Earth photographed by the Apollo 15 crew, from between 25, 000 and 30, 000 nautical miles away

Earth from space - Africa, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth from space - Africa, c1980s. Planet Earth showing Africa and part of the Middle East, with Europe at the top

North and Central America from Apollo 16, 16 April 1972. Creator: NASA
North and Central America from Apollo 16, 16 April 1972. Earth from the Apollo 16 spacecraft, showing North America and the Pacific Ocean

Christ in Majesty (Maiestas domini). Second illuminated capital letter in De Civitate Dei Libri XXII, work of St. Augustine, manuscript on parchment made?

Annulorum, cover of the work with the engraving of an Armillary Sphere, 1537 edition

Astronomicon, cover of the work with an armillary sphere, published in Venice in 1485

Construction of deep sea inspection chambers, Markham & Co, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1966. A welder at work on a deep sea inspection chamber being built for the North Sea oil industry

Louis de Gruuthuse before an astronomical clock (From: Horloge de Sapience by Henri Suso), ca. 1470-1480. Found in the Collection of Bibliothe que Nationale de France

Astrolabe, Early 18th cen. Found in the Collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Saint Augustine in His Study. Artist: Botticelli, Sandro (1445-1510)
Saint Augustine in His Study. Found in the collection of Chiesa di Ognissanti, Florence

Cosmos (from the Schedels Chronicle of the World), 1493. Artist: Anonymous
Cosmos (from the Schedels Chronicle of the World), 1493. Found in the collection of Library of the Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg

Artes Mechanicae. Frieze in the Casa Pellizzari, c. 1500. Artist: Giorgione (1476-1510)
Artes Mechanicae. Frieze in the Casa Pellizzari, c. 1500. Found in the collection of Casa Giorgione, Castelfranco Veneto

Portrait of Princess Dorothea of Denmark (1520-1580), ca 1530. Artist: Gossaert, Jan (ca. 1478-1532)
Portrait of Princess Dorothea of Denmark (1520-1580), ca 1530. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

The Infant Christ on the Orb of the World, ca 1530. Artist: Cleve, Joos, van (ca. 1485-1540)
The Infant Christ on the Orb of the World, ca 1530. Found in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

The periscope in use in a French trench, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Artist: Sphere
The periscope in use in a French trench, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

System of Astronomy, c1790. Hand-coloured later

Two Spheres of Life, 1872. Artist: C Burt
Two Spheres of Life, 1872. A domestic servant works (left), while her mistress plays the piano. Engraving from John Gilmary Sheas A Childs History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, (New York)

A Young Astronomer, ca 1685. Artist: Deuren, Olivier van (1666-1714)
A Young Astronomer, ca 1685. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Cometa, qui anno Christi, 1742. Artist: Seutter, Matthaeus (1678-1757)
Cometa, qui anno Christi, 1742. Found in the collection of the Yale University

Astrolabe, Second half of the16th cen Artist: Arsenius, Gualterus (c. 1530-c. 1580)
Astrolabe, Second half of the16th cen.. Found in the collection of the Universita di Padova

The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. Artist: Landelot-Theodore Turpin de Crisse
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France

Geocentric or Earth-centred system of the universe, 1528. At the centre is the world showing Aristotles (384-323 BC) four elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, surrounded by the spheres of the Sun

Geocentric or Earth-centred Universe, c1617. The Earth surrounded by the spheres of the elements water, air and fire, and by the spheres of the Moon

The relation of Man, the microcosm, with the Universe, the macrocosm, c1617. The spheres of the Sun, Moon and planets and the hierarchy of angels and archangels

Reconstruction of a medieval conception of the universe, 19th century?
Reconstruction of medieval conception of the universe, 19th century? A flat earth surrounded by the crystalline spheres. A man has broken through the outermost of these

Portrait of the Astronomer. Artist: Basaiti, Marco (c. 1470-1530)
Portrait of the Astronomer. Found in the collection of the State Art Gallery, Lviv

Behaviour of a magnetic compass, 1643. If a compass in a box is carried round a globe-shaped magnet (N, centre of picture) with magnetic poles where lines cross (left and right of N)

Pluto as seen from New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. Creator: NASA
Pluto as seen from New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476

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