Planets Collection (page 23)

Blunt / Venus / Plate 8
Two views of Venus

Blunt / Earth & Asteroids
The Earth in relation to the Sun and inferior planets and asteroids

Blunt / 1st 4 Planets / Mvem
A diagram showing Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

Blunt / Earths Rotundity
The Earths rotundity

Blunt / Earths Dimensions
The Earths figure and dimensions

Bussingers System
Caspar Bussingers system, demonstrating his theories concerning the obliquely elliptical orbits of the planets round the Sun

Atlas & Planets
A Titan, condemned by Zeus to carry the entire heavens on his back : the planets in their orbits are clearly marked !

Earth Seen from Moon
seen above the Mountains of the Moon

Planet Mars
The planet Mars seen from Earth

Planet Venus
The planet Venus seen from Earth

Planet Jupiter
The planet Jupiter seen from Earth

Blunt / Planetary Motion
The laws of planetary motion

Ptolemaic System /
Plan of the Heavens, showing Ptolemys explanation for the eccentric movement of the Sun round the Earth, in relation to the Fixed Stars and Planets

Johann Elert Bode / Fricke
JOHANN ELERT BODE German astronomer Worked on relative distances between planets and the sun

Surface markings on the planet Mars, showing two different faces

Supposed landscape on the planet Mars
A supposed landscape on the planet Mars, showing the canals

Landscape on the planet Mars
View of a landscape on the planet Mars, showing the canals

Night sky above the planet Mars
The night sky above the planet Mars, showing its two small moons and, at the appropriate seasons, planet Earth gleaming like the evening star

Valier rocket taking off from the moon
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes using a lunar base for rockets travelling to distant planets. (3 of 3)

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