Saturn
Date
1805
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Astronomical view of the planet Saturn, the southern region to the top of the plate, north below, observed through 10-inch and 20-inch reflecting telescopes.
The accompanying note states that: ‘It has already been mentioned on a former occasion, that so far back as the year 1776 I perceived that the body of Saturn was not exactly round; and when I found in the year 1781 that it was flattened at the poles at least as much as Jupiter, I was insensibly diverted from a more critical attention to the rest of the figure.’.
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Observations of the singular figure of the planet Saturn. By William Herschel…’. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.23, (1805-1806) pp.147-153.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl. VII. Vol XXIII.’. Inscribed below: ‘Engraved by Lowry. 90’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
William Heschel (1738-1822), German-born British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1781.
The accompanying note states that: ‘It has already been mentioned on a former occasion, that so far back as the year 1776 I perceived that the body of Saturn was not exactly round; and when I found in the year 1781 that it was flattened at the poles at least as much as Jupiter, I was insensibly diverted from a more critical attention to the rest of the figure.’.
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Observations of the singular figure of the planet Saturn. By William Herschel…’. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.23, (1805-1806) pp.147-153.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl. VII. Vol XXIII.’. Inscribed below: ‘Engraved by Lowry. 90’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
William Heschel (1738-1822), German-born British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1781.
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