Planets Collection (#22)

A City on Titan
Here on Titan, largest of Saturns satellite moons, everything is on a massive scale - their cities make New York seem puny. People are intelligent and civilised

A City on Ganymede
Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is inhabited by cat-like people, who build their cities at the poles to exploit the magnetic force to provide heat, light and energy

A City on Callisto
Conditions on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, are comparable to those on Earth, and their people, cities and artifacts are not radically different from ours

Life on Callisto, one of Jupiters moons : scientists say that it may be capable of supporting life, though not necessarily life as we know it

A City on Mercury
The inhabitants of Mercury are insectoid, and their techno- -logy is a superior form of that used by ants and bees on Earth : quartz crystals are used to build their cities

A City on Uranus
Though discovered by Herschel in 1781, we know little about the seventh planet from the sun : the city of Metalia, made of metal and glass, is what life may be like there

Life on Mars
Mars is closer to Earth in size than the other planets, so we can expect life there to be somewhat similar to ours - this is an educated guess at a Martian metropolis

A City of Neptune
Conditions on the 8th planet from the sun favour reptile- like inhabitants : they build dome-like homes which are welded to the metallic rocks which form the planet

Planets - Mars
MARS drives his chariot over the face of the Earth, where under his influence people everywhere are fighting, burning, pillaging and slaughtering one another

Planets - Jupiter
JUPITER (Zeus, Jove) drives his chariot, drawn by eagles, over Earth where scientists study the cosmos and conduct experiments and philosophers engage in learned discourse

Planets - Saturn
SATURN drives his chariot through the skies, drawn by a pair of dragons : miners dig in the earth, prophets and soothsayers, magicians and witches play their trades

Planets - Mercury
MERCURY (Hermes) drives his chariot drawn by two carrier pigeons over Earth where merchants are trading, importing, selling, bartering, and exchanging goods

Planets - Title Page
Title page of Planetarum effectus, showing Jove/Zeus with eagle and thunderbolts, ruling the heavens of which he has a cosmic blueprint with the zodiacal signs

Planets - Venus
VENUS (Aphrodite) drives her chariot drawn by two doves over the Earth where people are dancing, wooing, courting, hugging, music-making and love-making

Shape of the Earth
A diagram demonstrating how the Earth is definitely round due to the shadow cast across the moon and not triangular square or hexagonal in shape

Jupiter Observed 1869
The planet as observed and drawn by John Browning

Jupiter, Pope Crowns King
Jupiter, in peacock-chariot ensures splendid order is kept as Pope crowns King

Aphrodite and the Arts
Venus rides chariot pulled by doves. Under her influence the arts of love and music flourish

Tunnel through Earth
The French astronomer Flammarion proposes a tunnel through the Earth

Mars Canals
Birds eye view of part of the Martian surface, showing the canal-like network

Planets and Zodiac
The Solar System, showing how the planets move between the houses of the Zodiacal system, thereby inevitably affecting everything that happens and everyone who is born

Typical landscape on the planet Mars
A typical landscape on the planet Mars, in one of the marshy areas

Different aspects of the planet Mars, showing the variations in the character of its surface

Earth Touches Heavens
Earths junction with the heavens

Astronomical feature, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, South America

3rd Day of the Creation
The fourth day

Canals of Mars 20C
The canals of Mars

Jupiter Observed
Jupiter seen from one of its moons

Surface of Mercury
An artists impression of the surface of Mercury

Saturn, Two Views
Two views of the planet, one from sideways-on, the other looking downwards, showing the surrounding rings

Saturns Rings 8
The rings of Saturn as seen from the planets surface

Venus, the Dark Side
The sunless side of Venus

Venus, the Sunlit Side
The sunlit side of Venus

Albumazar at Work
The great Arabian scholar and astrologer Albumazar (805-885) studies the configurations of the stars and planets

Transit of Venus
A diagram illustrating the visible transit of Venus across the Sun

Continents Joined
Sniders conception of how Earths continents were originally one - proposed long before Wegener, longer still before it was accepted by the scientific establishment

Newly Created Earth 1550
God and his angels look down on the innocent planet he has just created, while demons contemplate the possibilities of messing it all up

Blunt / Jupiter / Eclipse
A diagram showing an eclipse of Jupiters satellites

Blunt / Atmospherical Ref
A diagram explaining atmospherical refraction

Blunt / Earths Shadows
The Earths shadows

Blunt / Planets / Retrograde
The apparent retrograde motion of the planets

Blunt / Sun from Planets
The Sun as seen from different planets

Blunt / Relative Planets
The relative sizes of the planets. A-Mercury, B-Venus, C-Earth D- Mars, H-Uranus, top-Jupiter and bottom-Saturn

Blunt / Phases of Saturn
Phases of the planet Saturn

Blunt / Uranus / Plate 12
A view of Uranus, or Herschel as it was also known

Blunt / Saturn / Plate 11
A view of Saturn

Blunt / Two View of Mars / 9
Two views of Mars

Blunt / Venus / Plate 8
Two views of Venus

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