Description
with a petticoat suspended from the ceiling above them
with boarding in front of it covered with advertisements
Engraving of Tycho Brahe's great equatorial armillary instrument
'Sitta capite nigro'
Structure of the Milky Way galaxy Size:XL: 120 x 60cm with a petticoat suspended fromPlate 8 figure 4 from the paper 'On the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 213 266. Illustration of a section through the galaxy, leading Herschel to the conclusion that 'our nebula is of the third form; that is: A very extensive, branching, compound Congeries of many millions of stars.' Inscribed in pencil verso with publication details. Not signed. Watermarked 'CP'
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