Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm Topsail barges at anchor on

Topsail barges at anchor on the Thames

and verses in English and Latin by Edward Benlowes

surmounted by a view of St Paul's Cathedral's dome from Fleet Street

By Rycault's left hand is a sword-hilt

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm Topsail barges at anchor onPlate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration