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Galileo, table of sunspot observations, from Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari (History and Demonstration concerning Sunspots), Rome, 1613
Title
Galileo, table of sunspot observations, from Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari (History and Demonstration concerning Sunspots), Rome, 1613
Format
photograph: negative
Date
1613
Description
A set of observations of sunspots made by Galileo during the period from 21 October to 14 December, 1611.
“Scrooge’s third visitor”--Dickens
Title
“Scrooge’s third visitor”--Dickens
Format
photograph: negative
Whitehall
Title
Whitehall
Format
photograph: negative
Date
1809
Description
Ackermann, R., The Microcosm of London, Vol. III, London 1809-1810 Plate no. 95
Dodart, D. Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des plantes.
Title
Dodart, D. Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des plantes.
Format
photograph: print
Date
1676
Description
With a pharmacy and botanic garden in the background, Dodart’s seventeenth-century vignette depicts the process of preparing medical simples from plant to bottle. While laborers toil at the scales and distilling furnace, gentlemen-philosophers, clerics and physicians discuss the latest developments in pharmacoepia.
Galileo, two illustrations of the moon from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
Title
Galileo, two illustrations of the moon from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
Format
photograph: negative
Date
1610
Description
Two illustrations of features of the moon’s surface, showing strong light and dark shadings on the light side. According to the prevailing Aristotelian cosmology, heavenly bodies were perfectly smooth and spherical. Galileo’s observations of the moon’s roughness tended to support the new Copernican system, which no longer upheld the distinction between terrestrial and heavenly bodies.
Dining Hall, Asylum
Title
Dining Hall, Asylum
Format
photograph: negative
Date
1808
Description
Ackermann, R., The Microcosm of London, Vol. I, London 1808 Plate no. 5
Kepler - Foldout, from De Cometis
Title
Kepler - Foldout, from De Cometis
Format
photograph: negative
Date
1619