Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8655
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    Arcs of the distances of stars

    Date
    1817
    Creator
    William Herschel (1738 - 1822, German-British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 230mm
    width (drawing): 191mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > star
    Description
    Plate 15 figure 1 from the paper "Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way", by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.302-331. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. A note "Turn over" appears in pencil, bottom right. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "Ruse & Turners 1815."
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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