Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 On the right of 'Janus'

On the right of 'Janus' Russell

Panorama of London from the top of the Monument

'Melopoyn haranguing the prisoners in the Fleet'

but including two volumes by Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 On the right of 'Janus'Plate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration