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Astronomy. Fitzgeralds General Preceptor Vol. pa:
London Publish'd by C. Taylor Holborn Dec.r 1 1795
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 205 x 110mm (8 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark on right offset.
Female figure alongide telescope and astronomical instruments, with a starry sky behind.
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L'expèrience de cette Figure Aërostatique haute de 8 pieds faite par les frères Ensten.
Weis sc.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") large margins. Slight creasing.
A print showing a flying figure of Mercury, the figure was made to float and was the invention of the Ensten brothers.
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Edmundus Halley, Soc. Reg. Soc. Astronomus Regius Geometriæ Professor Savilianus.
G.Kneller S.R.I. Eq. et Mag Brit. Baron.s pinx. G. White fec et excudit.
[London, n.d., c.1725.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9").
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British Astronomer, made Astronomer Royal in 1721. He was the first astronomer to calculate a comet's orbit, predicting the return of the comet that bears his name in 1758, several years after his death. CS 20, state i of ii.
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