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.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnjqW9efc-D1oHZlADr-BZ04R04TYCSaK1LV0kg3J0kGI1rfiQ0ZxT_VIS8juAByYV59vdOSVOhx5Z2wj8ciQNacqk701sdoaeJgzNG1H_mqWTu2RSs5nEgKCb7KmW1zoXZTx/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-01-14+at+8.48.01+pm.png) |
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 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEnNTEn99RsW1X4OQiG87zmvRM4JStBN9TX56cQ84lin8UNZoomHRUdxhKH_xiPlNUwAF6R4KkaFQ5oCuW6og6f34Wx9LjloXvHLff-dl-TAO-jE_lAnlK82VtDgYvquDNAE2/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-01-14+at+8.53.11+pm.png) |
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!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULalxdCDnkzXZIc6fTwIlXlDSfnEkRgGDkKsQ1-DUpRmuzb9gLMxmcGDRdM20TY8oU-LEDvAdS3bCaAW0kYao1RF1GoJcOrVuTYOEsg6n6zUgipzhCKFs1Cc-cTVS4oNTEJoF/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-01-14+at+8.56.27+pm.png) |
Image from Flowers of the Sky (1879) by Richard A. Proctor |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvDy7vtkKmQFxV7NFzSUh-CKU_YzPn8v-aT_2_69zdHmPMjCezQhjtKE6Wjqf2HwLoKKBkk_0tMpitzmyCs_ReZ3yETJrzVNga6AXdbc-7Zn2Ip_Q4XdmteLyddk5GLOvLcyV/s1600/15155657059_09edea9f89_o.jpg) |
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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