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Perspective View of the Visible Creation
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Plate XVII from Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750), a richly illustrated work (embellished with both fragments of poetry and stunning images) explaining his theories on the universe, including the appearance of the Milky Way as "an optical effect due to our immersion in what locally approximates to a flat layer of stars". In this image A represents the "system of our sun", B "that supposed arond Syrius", and C "the Region about Rigel". (Image source: The Getty via Internet Achive)
- The Diversity of Infinity Thomas Wright
- Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874) Anonymous
- Normal Lunar Crater James Nasmyth
- Ideal Lunar Landscape James Nasmyth
- Aratus' Model of the Universe Andreas Cellarius
- Celestial Chart Tobias Conrad Lotter
- Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth as Seen from the Moon James Nasmyth
- Comet Rosa Anonymous