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The Diversity of Infinity
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Plate XXXII 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". (Image source: The Getty via Internet Achive)
- Comet Gebea Anonymous
- Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874) Anonymous
- A Finite View of Infinity Thomas Wright
- Comets from 1664 and 1665 Stanislaus Lubienietzki
- The Flood Henrique Alvim Corrêa
- Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth as Seen from the Moon James Nasmyth
- Comet Miles Anonymous
- Stars Arranged in Rings Thomas Wright