Methods of 'gaging the heavens' Product:Postcard 'Dante and the Divine Comedy'

'Dante and the Divine Comedy' (The Comedy Illuminating Florence)

View of the Convent of the Sacred Heart on Hammersmith Road

20th January 1974

'What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way'

View of Billingsgate wharf and market

Methods of 'gaging the heavens' Product:Postcard 'Dante and the Divine Comedy'Plate 18 figures 17 18 for the paper 'Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 437 451. Figure 17 is Herschel's demonstration of observing the Milky Way galaxy stars using telescopes of different apertures. Figure 18 shows a method of determining the Sun's location in relation to other objects in what Herschel