Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Soane Plate 2 from the monograph

Plate 2 from the monograph Zoologische studien auf Capri

shewing the Cause of the Descent of the Mercury in the Barometer

'The Eve of St Agnes'

Everton captain William 'Dixie' Dean walks out on to the pitch with his rival Elisha Scott

Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Soane Plate 2 from the monographPlate 8 figures 1, 2, 3 and 5 from the paper 'On the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 213 266. Illustrations to support Herschel's speculations on the larger structures formed by stars. Figure 1 shows an ideal arrangement of four sections of cones of stars, the stars filling the space most evenly. Figure 2 shows an alternative arrangement with one star at the apex