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Medium * Images Theme * Astronomy & Space Style * Book Illustration * Photography * Painting & Drawing * Manuscript Illumination * Etching * Engraving * Woodcut * Mezzotint Epoch * Pre-16th Century * 16th Century * 17th Century * 18th Century * 19th Century * 20th Century Tags best of celestial14trouvelot2best of images86grandville4astronomy21 comet4space8 Source Source Various * Internet Archive logo More Internet Archive content on PDR (697) * California Digital Library logo More California Digital Library content on PDR (115) * Wikimedia Commons logo More Wikimedia Commons content on PDR (102) * Flickr: The Commons logo More Flickr: The Commons content on PDR (33) * ORKA - Open Repository Kassel logo More ORKA - Open Repository Kassel content on PDR (2) * Wellcome Collection logo More Wellcome Collection content on PDR (45) Rights Underlying Work PD Worldwide Rights Digital Copy Various - see source links. Rights Download Download Right click on image or see source for higher res versions [800px-Baye]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley's Comet -- Source. [1534241652]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. From the Nuremberg Chronicles, 1493 -- Source. [1533924813]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 52 (erschrocklicher Comet, 1300) -- Source [1515572022]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 52 (Comet mit einem grosen Schwantz, 1401) -- Source. [1534241707]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio ? (Comet, 1506) -- Source.. [1515614376]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. The figure of a Fearful Comet, from Les oeuvres d'Ambroise Pare, 1579 -- Source. [1534241857]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Comet of 1577, depicted by Georgium Jacobum von Datschitz, 1577 -- Source. [1533924801]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Astronomie & Komet by Erastus, Dudith, Squarcialupi and Grynaeus, 1580 -- Source. comet bookScroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch. More in a special post here -- Source: Universitatsbibliothek Kassel, CC-BY SA 4.0 comet bookScroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch. More in a special post here -- Source: Universitatsbibliothek Kassel, CC-BY SA 4.0 comet bookScroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch. More in a special post here -- Source: Universitatsbibliothek Kassel, CC-BY SA 4.0 comet bookScroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch. More in a special post here -- Source: Universitatsbibliothek Kassel, CC-BY SA 4.0 [655px-Kome]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Detail of a Comet, Frankfurt am Main, 1665 - Source. [235448-edi]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Engraving from Stanislaus Lubienietzki's Theatrum Cometicum (The Theatre of Comets) published in 1668 -- Source. [1531938609]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Joseph Boll's depiction of the 1704 comet over Catalonia, 1704 -- Source. [1534267071]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint, after 1783 -- Source. [1515589068]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. The comet, by Thomas Cornell (floruit 1792), published 1789 -- Source. [oct_19_new]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Etching showing the 'view of the organisation of the heavenly bodies' according to the pioneering astronomer William Herchel -- published for The Gallery of Nature and Art: or, A Tour Through Creation and Science by the Rev. Edward Polehampton and John M. Good, 1813 -- Source. [1515588849]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Image from J.J. Grandville's Un Autre Monde (1844) -- Source. [oct_19_new]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print Engraving from 1860 depicting some of the most famous comets over the centuries: Halley's Comet (1835), Donatis Comet (1858), and further comets of 1680, 1741, and 1811 -- Source. [1534220852]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from A Popular Treatise on Comets (1861) by James C. Watson -- Source. [1534251357]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from A Popular Treatise on Comets (1861) by James C. Watson -- Source. [1515581486]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from A Popular Treatise on Comets (1861) by James C. Watson -- Source. [1515572131]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Contemporary drawing of the meteorite fall at Knyahinya (Ukraine) on June 9, 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger -- Source. [1515589096]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image of a combined meteor shower orbit, from Popular Science Monthly Volume 1, 1872 -- Source [1534211485]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from Astronomy (1875) by J. Rambosson -- Source. [1515565631]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from Astronomy (1875) by J. Rambosson -- Source. [1534241766]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from Astronomy (1875) by J. Rambosson -- Source. [1531938476]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from Astronomy (1875) by J. Rambosson -- Source. [1515614662]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Image from Flowers of the Sky (1879) by Richard A. Proctor -- Source. [1515565705]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Buy as a Print The great comet of 1881 (Comet C/1881 K1). Observed on the night of June 25-26 at 1h. 30m. A.M. Plate XI from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1881) -- Source. [1515583879]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833, from E. Weiss's Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888) -- Source. [5711528390]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Morehouse's Comet, Photographed at Yerkes Observatory, 1908 -- Source. [s3_V004900]Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?) -- Source. 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