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Astronomy Collection

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Isaac Newton using a prism to analyze the colors in a ray of light. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Meteor shower over the Mississippi River, 1833

Meteor shower over the Mississippi River, 1833
Remarkable meteor shower over the Mississippi River, 1833. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Egyptian deities separating night and day

Egyptian deities separating night and day
Ancient Egyptian deities Shu separating Sibu and Nuit. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a painting on a mummy-case

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Sun-god Ra on his daily journey, ancient Egypt

Sun-god Ra on his daily journey, ancient Egypt
Sun-god Ra embarking for his daily journey through Egypt. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of ancient Egyptian art

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait

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Greek astronomer Hipparchus mapping the stars over Alexandria, ancient Egypt. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Spaceship to the Moon imagined in the 1870s

Spaceship to the Moon imagined in the 1870s
Projectile train to the moon, a suggested form of space travel, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Royal Society endorsement of a lens-grinder, 1600s

Royal Society endorsement of a lens-grinder, 1600s
Opticians advertisement illustrated with Archimedes at a telescope, London, 1694. Hand-colored woodcut of a 17th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: PSCI2A-00097

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Ptolemys earth-centered cosmological system, explained by Muller, 1400s. Hand-colored 19th century woodcut reproduction of the 1543 edition

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William Herschel and his sister Caroline at their telescope, 1700s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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Galileo attempting to defend his belief in the heliocentric solar system before the Inquisition in Rome, 1633. Hand colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Greenwich Observatory

Greenwich Observatory
Astronomers taking sightings from the old observing-room at Greenwich, England. Hand-colored engraving

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Medieval astronomer or astrologer

Medieval astronomer or astrologer
Astronomer accused of sorcery, holding a disc with magic figures, 1200s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a medieval illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Medieval astronomers studying the sky

Medieval astronomers studying the sky
Astronomers studying the planetary systems, the sun, moon, and stars. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 1537 edition of Boethius

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Galileo Galilei. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Pueblo Bonito corner window, Chaco Canyon NM

Pueblo Bonito corner window, Chaco Canyon NM
Astronomically positioned window at Pueblo Bonito, an Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloan site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Digital photograph

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Tycho Brahes quadrant. Hand-colored woodcut

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Johann Kepler. Hand-colored engraving

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Isaac Newtons handwritten solution of the brachystochrone, or curve of quickest descent. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

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Astronomer John Frederick William Herschel. Hand-colored engraving of a painting by H. W. Pickersgill

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Schiaparelli
Astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli. Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait

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Galileo Galilei, astronomer. Hand-colored engraving of a painting

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Frontispiece of Galileos " Systema Cosmicum, " 1641, showing the author with Ptolemy and Copernicus. Hand-colored woodcut of the document

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Sir Isaac Newton. Hand-colored engraving of a portrait by Sir Godfry Kneller

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Medieval Arabs teaching science

Medieval Arabs teaching science
Astronomy, alchemy and astrology taught by Arab scholars in medieval schools. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Tycho Brahe portrait, 1586. Hand-colored engraving

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Keplers mechanism of his early (incorrect ) theory of planetary orbits. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration

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Astronomer William Herschel with Uranus document. Hand-colored engraving of a portrait

Background imageAstronomy Collection: Harvard Astronomical Observatory in 1851

Harvard Astronomical Observatory in 1851
Harvard Astronomical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1851. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Isaac Newton. Hand-colored engraving from a portrait by Vanderbank

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Maria Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy, Vassar College. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrati

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Copernicus studying the night sky. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th century illustration


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