Live Auction 4826Travel, Science and Natural History
TWELVE DIDACTIC ASTRONOMICAL LANTERN SLIDES
Lot 76

TWELVE DIDACTIC ASTRONOMICAL LANTERN SLIDES

ENGLISH, BEFORE 1848

Closed25 April 2012

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GBP 625

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TWELVE DIDACTIC ASTRONOMICAL LANTERN SLIDES
ENGLISH, BEFORE 1848
a complete set of hand-painted slides, numbered 1-12 showing the planets with their satellites, phases of the moon, tides and eclipses, the last two with moving parts to demonstrate eclipses of Sun and Moon.
9½in long in case

Specialist note

The eighth satellite on Saturn was discoverd in 1848, here Saturn is shown with seven and Uranus six, as it was commonly thought to have from 1797 to circa 1830.