Methods of 'gaging the heavens' Product:Postcard a House of Correction for

a House of Correction for prostitutes etc in Tothill Fields

showing the Frost Fair in the foreground and figures inspecting the incomplete piers of Westminster Bridge on the right

20th January 1974

View of the Convent of the Sacred Heart on Hammersmith Road

Methods of 'gaging the heavens' Product:Postcard a House of Correction forPlate 18 figures 17 18 for the paper 'Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 437 451. Figure 17 is Herschel's demonstration of observing the Milky Way galaxy stars using telescopes of different apertures. Figure 18 shows a method of determining the Sun's location in relation to other objects in what Herschel