Space

An illustration from <n>Specimens of Fancy Turning</n> (1869) by artist <n>Edward J. Woolsey</n>.

<n>Oscillon 40</n> (1952) by artist and mathematician <n>Ben F. Laposky</n>.

From <n>Sir Robert Ball</n>'s <n>The Story of the Heavens</n> (1901), an illustration comparing the Earth and Moon.

From the <n>Mood campaign</n>, photographed by <n>Kelley Shaffer</n>.

Illustration from <n>E. Walter Maunder</n>'s 1904 book '<n>Astronomy without a Telescope</n>'.

An eclipse seen from inside an <n>O'Neill Cylinder</n> space colony. Painting by <n>Don Davis</n> for a 1975 <n>NASA</n> study.

A scientific illustration of <n>The Sun</n>, Plate 1.

<n>Emblem 45</n> from <n>Michael Maier</n>'s alchemical book '<n>Atalanta fugiens</n>', 1617.

<n>Part of the Milky Way</n>, an 1882 astronomical drawing by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n>.

Plate XVI from <n>Thomas Wright</n>'s 1750 book, <n>An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe</n>.