EditorialSatellite balloons, Hot air balloon by Camille Flammarion during a flight in 1867, Signed: A. M, Fig. 57, p. 288, Marie, Adrien (del.), 1870, James Glaisher; Camille Flammarion; Wilfrid de Fonvielle; Gaston Tissandier: Voyages a?riens. Paris: Hachette,...
EditorialProcyon hernandesi, Print, Procyon is the brightest object in the constellation of Canis Minor and usually the eighth-brightest star in the night sky with a visual apparent magnitude of 0.34. It has the Bayer designation a Canis Minoris, which is Latin...
EditorialPtolemy, Alphos, Arzachael, etc. , c.1874. A 19th century photograph of the surface of the Moon, showing craters. The Moon: considered as a planet, a world and a satellite. London, 1885. Woodburytype. Source: 8562.e.22 plate 13.
EditorialSatellite sphinx, Eumorpha satellitia, female 1, male 2, and spurge hawk-moth, Hyles euphorbiae 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.