Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 'Appearance which should be seen

'Appearance which should be seen from the Earth

tried and convicted

who sits in St Edward's chair

Panorama of London from the top of the Monument

'Melopoyn haranguing the prisoners in the Fleet'

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 'Appearance which should be seenPlate 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