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Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014)


Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.

Buy as a Print Etching showing the 'view of the organisation of the heavenly bodies' according to the pioneering astronomer William Herchel — published for The Gallery of Nature and Art: or, A Tour Through Creation and Science by the Rev. Contemporary drawing of the meteorite fall at Knyahinya (Ukraine) on June 9, 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger — Source. Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833, from E. Weiß's Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888) — Source.

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