planets

ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

The Moon and Her Children from a set of the Planets

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Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

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Diagram of the planets from BL YT 31, f. 70v

Circular diagram of the seven planets, each of which governs a day of the week, set around a wheel. Each planet is depicted as a human figure: the Sun as a woman with a flower, Venus swimming, Mercury with a ... More

Spheres of elements and planets from BL Royal 19 C I, f. 50

Detail of a miniature of a diagram of the spheres of the elements and planets, supported by four angels. Image taken from f. 50 of Breviari d'Amor. Written in French (Occitan) (Provencal). The BL Royal Manuscr... More

Computistic circles, with angel, sun, moon and planets

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The celestial spheres, the orbits of the planets, the four elements an...

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Planets from BL Sloane 332, f. 9v

Diagram showing the dignities of the planets. Image taken from f. 9v of Astrological miscellany, including Messahala's Epistola (ff. 13v-15v); and De rebus occultis (ff. 84-88); Campanus's De dispositione aeris... More

Scheme of the elements, the planets and the zodiac

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Map of the world with the phases of the moon, the planets and the sun

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Spheres of elements and planets from BL Royal 19 C I, f. 50

Miniature of a diagram of the spheres of the elements and planets, supported by four angels. Image taken from f. 50 of Breviari d'Amor. Written in French (Occitan) (Provencal). The BL Royal Manuscript Collecti... More

Sun, moon, and planets - Public domain medieval manuscript

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Planets from BL Harley 2633, f. 37

Diagram of the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal signs; a thread is attached to the centre ... More

Diagram of the motion of the planets in Latitutde L from BL Royal 13 A...

Diagram of the motion of the planets in Latitutde L including Venus, Marcury, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, Mars and the Moon. Image taken from f. 143v of Miscellany works on Computus and astrology. Written in Lati... More

Diagram of the planets from BL Harley 3017, f. 94

Diagram of the concentric orbits of the planets showing the periods of their revolution. Image taken from f. 94 of A Carolingian miscellany of computational and astronomical texts and tables, including decenno... More

Diagram of the harmony of the planets from BL Burn 224, f. 191v

Diagram of the harmony of the planets, marked with names of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, and the Moon, with the page number '380' in Twysden's handwriting. Image taken from f. 191v of Metamor... More

The relation between the planets, the four temperaments, the four seas...

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World and the orbits of the planets, sun and moon (astronomical diagra...

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Harmony of the spheres showing the conformity between the world and pl...

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Sun as Apollo, moon and planets

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Scheme of the map of the world with sun, moon, and five planets

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The world, the course of the sun, the moon, the planets, the constella...

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The Sun, plate 44 from Planets and Spheres

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Scheme of the phases of the moon and the positions of the sun and the ...

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Map of the world with the phases of the moon, the planets, and the sun

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Scheme of the world, planets, sun, moon and zodiac

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Scheme of the world, celestial spheres, orbits of planets, sun, moon ...

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The orbits of the planets and the zones of the earth

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[Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regio...

Frontspiece in: Epytoma in Almagestum / Regiomontus. Venice : J. Hammam, 1496. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 29.

Heinrich Aldegrever - Mars, from The Seven Planets

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Divinities of the Planets and Constellations, Ming dynasty

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明 傳仇英 五星二十八宿神形圖 卷|Divinities of the Planets and Constellations

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Scheme of the world, planets, sun, moon and zodiac

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The relation between the planets, the four temperaments, the four seas...

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Scheme of the planets, sun, moon, constellations and the zones of the ...

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Scheme of the world, celestial spheres, orbits of planets, sun, moon a...

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Scheme of the phases of the moon, the positions of the sun and the pla...

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Scheme of the map of the world with moon, sun and five planets

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Harmony of the spheres showing the conformity between the world and pl...

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Sun as Apollo, moon and planets

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Scheme of the world, planets, sun, moon and zodiac

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World and the orbits of the planets (Astronomical diagrams)

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Saturn from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets

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Sun from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets

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Mercury from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets

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Jupiter from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets

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Venus from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets

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Marcantonio Raimondi - Mercurius, from Planets, plate 6

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

The Moon and Her Children from a Set of the Planets

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Marcantonio Raimondi - Sol, from Planets, plate 4

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

Marcantonio Raimondi - Saturn, from Planets, plate 1

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

Marcantonio Raimondi - Luna, from Planets, plate 7

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

Marcantonio Raimondi - Venus, from Planets, plate 5

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

Marcantonio Raimondi - Jupiter, from Planets, plate 2

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

Marcantonio Raimondi - Mars, from Planets, plate 3

Giulio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been ... More

Heinrich Aldegrever - Saturn, from The Seven Planets

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Heinrich Aldegrever - Mars, from The Seven Planets

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Saturn holding an Infant and a Scythe, from The Seven Planets

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Heinrich Aldegrever - Jupiter, from The Seven Planets

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The Dominion of Venus, from Seven Planets

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[Solar system diagram with seven planets in circular orbits, the earth...

Illus. and text in: Da revolutionibus orbium coelestium / Nicolaus Copernicus. Norimbergae : Apud I. Peteium, 1543. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congr... More

Georg Pencz - Venus, from The Seven Planets

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Saturn (from The Planets), Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch

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Apollo (from The Planets), Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch

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Mars (from The Planets), Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch

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Jupiter (from The Planets), Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch

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Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum siue machina orbium mundi ex hypothesi Ptol...

While most of the maps in this exhibit depict just the Earth -- reflecting mankind's perception of his immediate and perceived environment -- very few address the planet's position in the larger universe. Howev... More

Panel from a table carpet showing the Four Continents, the Seasons, an...

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Panel from a table carpet showing the Four Continents, the Seasons, an...

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Panel from a table carpet showing the Four Continents, the Seasons, an...

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Panel from a table carpet showing the Four Continents, the Seasons, an...

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Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Ar...

Appears in Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia macrocosmica. Amstelodami : Apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by pho... More

A new and correct map of the world : laid down according to the newest...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets: The northern hemisphere upon the plane of the Equinoctial -- The northern coelestial hemisphere -- A projection of ye world upon equidistant meridians and parallels -- The nort... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounte... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Whiston's Solar System.

Loop van de planeten in het jaar 1729

Astrononomische diagrammen met de loop van de planeten Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercurius en Saturnus ten opzichte van de aarde in het jaar 1729.

The Solar System, with the orbits of 5 remarkable comets.

Appears in: A complete system of geography / Emanuel Bowen. London, 1747. 2 vol[s]. Includes diagrams of: Oblique sphere -- Right sphere -- Parallel sphere. Available also through the Library of Congress Web si... More

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Allegory of the Planets and Continents

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[An orrey or planetarium designed by George Adams showing relative pos...

Illus. in: Astronomical and geographical essay. 6th ed., cor. and enl. London : W. & S. Jones, 1812. This plate: London : Printed for & published by W. & S. Jones, Holborn, as the Act directs, 1799 Jany. 1st.,... More

A new map of the world : with all the new discoveries by Capt. Cook an...

Relief shown pictorially. Also shows lines of magnetic variation and marine wind-direction arrows. "Published as the Act directs, Aug't 1st 1799, by I. Evans, No. 41 Long Lane, West Smithfield." Originally prin... More

A plan or map of the Solar System projected for schools & academies /

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846, by Hall Colby, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York." Available also through the Library ... More

[Illustration showing Descartes' mechanical view of a universe filled ...

Illus. in: Principia philosophiae / Rene Descartes. Amstelodami : Apud L. Elzevirium, 1644, p. 114. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 265.

Venus with Libra and Taurus, from The Seven Planets

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[Planetary systems of Ptolemy, the Egyptians, Tycho Brahe, and Coperni...

Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art / Johann G. Heck. New York : Published by Rudolph Garrigue, 1851, vol. 1, division 1, vol. 2, pl. 7.

Outward letter: Colonial Secretary, Page 385

The planet Uranus and its two moons

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The planet Mars, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library...

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Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Bilder ur solsystemet.

Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Bilder ur solsystemet. Public domain photograph - night sky, astronomy, universe, space, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Planeten Mars och Jorden...

Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Planeten Mars och Jorden.

The planet Saturn - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Charles Scribner's Sons, copyright claimant. Trouv... More

The planet Jupiter - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Charles Scribner's Sons, copyright claimant. Trouv... More

The solar system. - Public domain vintage map

In lower right margin: 7. Includes diagrams of: Theory of the Seasons -- Eclipses -- Theory of Tides -- Phases of the Moon -- Mariner's Compass. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The review of reviews, July - Art nouveau public domain poster - Art n...

Saturn is in the forefront of the poster with the constellation Leo in the background. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The chapbook, Claude Fayette Bragdon

A figure holds the Earth in its hand surrounded by the signs of the Zodiac. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The planet Saturn postcard, collection of astronomy

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Where will it strike next? / K.

Illustration shows a comet labeled "Allds Investigation" striking a planet labeled "Albany Legislature" causing it to explode among planets labeled "Aldrich, Penrose, Payne, Vreeland, Dalzell, Cannon, Hitchcock... More

Baron Bean. "So you've gone in for 'astronomy,' heh?"

Four-frame comic strip. The Baron asks a friend looking out a window with a telescope if he is interested in astronomy. The friend says he is, and that he has been looking at what others call Saturn. He insi... More

Erde und Planeten, Erde und Mond / - Public domain map

Appears in: Sydow-Wagners methodischer Schul-Atlas. 1923, 1926 and 1928 editions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth.

Prof. Hall of Naval Observatory with 26 inch telescope, Washington, D....

Photograph shows Professor Hall at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negat... More