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The Sun in Calcium Light

Series of photographs of the Sun, London, 1876.

James Ferguson, Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles (1757).

The Ptolemaic system, from ‘Margarita Philosophica’, 1535.

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Plate II, ‘Radiation and Absorption Spectra, 1878.

Plate IX: Saturn in 1874. From a drawing by L. Trouvelot.

Enlarged photograph of the Sun's disc, original taken 10th May 1878.

Large eruptive prominence, John Evershed, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1916.

Group of Spots on the Sun, dated ' September 13, 1880'

Lithographic colour print issued by Harvard College Observatory in 1876, showing the solar photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun.

'Solar Spot', 1864.