Description | English: “Wolf”: Book decoration by Fritz Erler |
Date | 1898 |
Source | Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (https://archive.org/details/deutschekunstund01kochuoft/page/122/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Fritz Erler |
Category Archives: Astronomy
Cosmography
Description | English: Title cut from Peter Apian’s Cosmography, 1551 |
Date | 1551 |
Source | Cosmographia Petri Apiani (https://archive.org/details/cosmographiapetr00apia_11) |
Author | Anonymous |
Cosmography
Description | English: Title cut from Peter Apian’s Cosmography, 1535 |
Date | 1535 |
Source | Cosmographiæ introductio (https://archive.org/details/cosmographiintro00apia/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Luna by Elihu Vedder
From Doubt and Other Things, 1922.
“To the Moon,” by Edward Henry Corbould
From The Vase of Flowers, 1847.
Schoolroom Ornament
From a pamphlet for Novelty Job Printing Presses, 1875.
William Herschel’s Forty-Foot Reflecting Telescope
This famous telescope has its own Wikipedia article. It was a backyard project by the famous astronomer and his wife, and it set a record for largest telescope in the world that was not broken for decades. This illustration comes from a splendid book called The Wonders of the Heavens, published in 1834.