Methods of 'gaging the heavens' Finish:Single Plate 46 from book Sammlung

Plate 46 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel

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Methods of 'gaging the heavens' Finish:Single Plate 46 from book SammlungPlate 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