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| Image title: | Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: the face of the sun. |
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| Source: | Anonymous: “Enclyclopædia Britannica” (1771) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | astronomy, sun, diagrams, zodiac, colour |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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This diagram, taken from plate XLII on eclipses, shows the sun as an eight-pointed star with a face in the middle, including eyes, nose and mouth! (Obviously the sun does not have a beard, since the hair would burn away!) |
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| Dimensions: | 47 x 47mm (1.9 x 1.9 inches) |
| Filename: | 457-astronomy-xlii-detail-sun-q90-1330x1330.jpg |
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| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/3f/pages/457-astronomy-xlii-detail-sun/ |
| Artist: | Andrew Bell (1726-1809) |
| Scanner dpi: | 1400 |
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