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Stars Arranged in Rings
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Plate XXVIII 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
- Aratus' Model of the Universe Andreas Cellarius
- Comet Miles Anonymous
- Celestial Chart Tobias Conrad Lotter
- Comet Gebea Anonymous
- Comet Veru Anonymous
- Comets from 1664 and 1665 Stanislaus Lubienietzki
- Perspective View of the Visible Creation Thomas Wright