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A Finite View of Infinity
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Plate XXXI 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)
- Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874) Anonymous
- Comet Gebea Anonymous
- Photograph of the Moon John Herschel
- Perspective View of the Visible Creation Thomas Wright
- The Solar System Adam and John Black
- Aratus' Model of the Universe Andreas Cellarius
- Comet Miles Anonymous
- Comets from 1664 and 1665 Stanislaus Lubienietzki