speaking of
open access, i found this great site,
the public domain review: a project of the open knowledge foundation.
on that site there is a collection called
flowers of the sky which shows historic depictions of comets, meteors, and meteorites over almost a 1000 year period. very neat! check out this link for all the original sources.
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| Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book of Miracle), c. 1552 |
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| Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, (Comet mit einem grosen Schwantz), c. 1552 |
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| Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch (Comet, 1500) |
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| Image from A Popular Treatise on Comets (1861) by James C. Watson |
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| Drawings of a meteorite falling in Ukraine in 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger |
also a good bit of
dirty space news in that above compilation!
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| Image from Flowers of the Sky (1879) by Richard A. Proctor |
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| Plate XI from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1881) |
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| Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833, from E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888) |
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