Solar eclipse of August 1887 mb-code 00372081 William Henry Smith

William Henry Smith

with a smiling woman sitting in the sidecar

It was a dangerous enterprise

Found in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts

Solar eclipse of August 1887 mb-code 00372081 William Henry SmithEight photographs of the total solar eclipse visible in Russia on 7 August 1889. Observations made from various locations in the Urals and Siberia. Extra illustrations pasted before the title page of the book Eclipse totale du soleil Aout, 1887. issued in Russian [title page also in French] by the Socit physico chimique Russe (St, Petersburg, 1889) Each photograph is captioned below with its place of origin: 'Polock'; 'Petrowski'; 'Juriewetz';