FLO4569260: Dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia macrophylla 1 and asarabacca, Asarum europaeum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569291: Cinnamon rose, Rosa majalis, and sweet briar, Rosa rubiginosa, Rosa umbellata flora carneo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569313: Pink millefolia rose, Rosa millefolia rubra, and alpine rose, Rosa pendulina inermis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569327: Sundial - Invalides - Paris - Sundial in Paris - Hotel des Invalides: The sundials of the western facade of the monument of the Hotel des Invalides. In the court of honour, the hour was given on each facade: to the north, by a clock and on the other three facades, by seven solar dials. If the clock is missing, the dials are still visible / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569354: La Meridienne de la Pitie-Salpetriere - Paris - Sundial in Paris - Hospital de la Pitie-Salpetiere: Outside the chapel of the Pitie-Salpetiere Hospital (75013), a Meridian is visible just above the door. It has the motto: Ultima Latet (the last one is hidden). This simple Meridian features the 11 am, 12 pm and 1 pm hour lines, plus the half-hours on either side of noon. Portions of daytime arches are traced and marked by the signs of the Zodiac / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569355: Sundial - Paris - Sundial in Paris: Recent sundial on the facade of a building located at 45 rue Letellier (75015) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569363: Purple or violet rose, Rosa holoserica purpurea flora semi-pleno. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569381: Large flowered Damask pink, Rosa damascena grandiflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Horned from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569390: Queen rose, Rosa regina rubicans, and moss rose, Rosa muscosa major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569392: Sundial - Riquewihr - Sundial - Riquewihr - Sundial - 1971 sundial / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569412: Sundial - Valloire - Sundial in France - Valloire - Dial realised by Zarbula, restored in 1998. Hameau Les Verneys, Savoie / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569414: Cyrtanthus angustifolius, amaryllis native to South Africa. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,”” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569520: Occultation of Jupiter by the Moon - Lunar Occultation with Jupiter - Jupiter and its Galilean satellites pass near the Moon. The beginning of the blackout. 15/07/2012. Jupiter and its galilean satellites transiting near the Moon. July 15 2012 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569580: Comet Bennett - 1970 - Comet Bennett. 1970 - Comet Bennett, 1969Y1. 197 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569581: Comete Hale - Bopp - Comet Hale - Bopp C/1995 Feb 16 1997 - Comet Hale - Bopp C/1995 O1 9:58 UT 16 February 199 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569596: Flame lily, Gloriosa superba, native to tropical Africa and Asia. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569650: White lady, Thunbergia fragrans, native to Australia. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569658: Indigofera juncea. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569683: Comete Hale - Bopp and Nebula North America - Comet Hale - Bopp and the North America Nebula - March 7, 1997. Hale - Bopp and the North American Nebula on 7 March 1997 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569695: Comete Hale - Bopp 12/03/1997 - Comet Hale - Bopp March 12 199 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569739: Franklin tree, Franklinia alatamaha, native to America, extinct in the wild. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569748: Comete Hale - Bopp - March 1997 - Comet Hale - Bopp in March 199 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569756: Canary madrone or strawberry tree, Arbutus canariensis, native to the Canary Islands, vulnerable. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569771: Comete Hale - Bopp 04/1997 - Comet Hale - Bopp 04/1997 - Comet Hale - Bopp 1996 O1 (19 April 1997) Comet Hale - Bopp seen above a snow - covered mountai / Bridgeman Images

FLO4569778: Dendrium buxifolium, native to America. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568776: Portrait of singer Anthony Webster in the role of Corporal William in Sheridan's musical Le Camp at Drury Lane, London in 1778. A. Webster led a short career in London from 1776 to 1780, despite his elegance and harmonious voice. Engraving in The Vocal Magazine, published by J.Bew in 1778. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568781: Portrait of singer and actress Margaret Martyr (nee Thornton; d. 1807), at Vauxhall, London, England, 1788. She started under her maiden name at Vauxhall Garden, the most popular London show scene of the period, and was engaged in Covent Garden in 1779. She was very appreciated in comic operas, pantomimes and intermission for 25 years. Engraving in The Vocal Magazine, published by J.Bew, 1778. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568807: Portrait of John Henderson (1747-1785), in the role of Don Juan, in The Chances of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Henderson was a British actor who shone in the roles of Lago, in Othello, Falstaff in Les joyeuses commeres de Windsor and Henry IV, plays by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Engraving by Thornthwaite, based on a portrait of J. Roberts published in “Bell's British Theatre”, 1777. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4568850: Open Cluster of Pleiades - The Pleiades star cluster - The Pleiades cluster is a cluster of about 500 young stars nees 150 million years ago. Visible in the constellation Taurus, this cluster is 440 years from the Earth. The Pleiades are one of the finest and nearest examples of a reflection nebula associated with a cluster of young stars. The cluster itself is a group of many hundreds of stars about 400 light years from Earth in the northern constellation of Taurus and has been recognised since ancient times. Seven of the brightest stars are quite easy to see with the unaided eye and bear the names of the Seven Sisters, the daughters of Atlas. The nebulosity seen here is light reflected from the particles in a cloud of cold gas and dust into which the cluster has drifted. It appears blue because these tiny interstellar particles scatter blue light more efficiently than the longer wavelengths of red light and it is streaky because of the distribution of dust particles in space / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568853: Portrait of Italian dancer Giovanna Baccelli, in a crinoloine dress, holding a garland of flowers in her hands, to baller it Les Amants Surprise, in which she began in London (England) in 1781 in the choreography of Louis simonet. She was the mistress of Frederick Sackville, Duke of Dorset. Engraving by Thornthwaite, based on an illustration by James Roberts, published in “Bell's British Theatre” in 1781. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4568855: Hyades and Pleiades open clusters - Hyades and Pleiades open clusters - The Hyades cluster, on the left, with the brilliant star Aldebaran. On the right, the Pleiades cluster. These two clusters belong to the constellation of the Taurus of which Aldebaran is the brightest star; it is a red giante. The Hyades is seen at left, containing the bright star Aldeberan. The Pleiades is at right. Both are open clusters in the constellation of Taurus. This skyview is corresponding to binoculars and small telescopes / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568887: Arabian oryx, Oryx leucoryx 1, grey rhebuck, Pelea capreolus 2, springbok, Antidorcas marsupialis 3, extinct bluebuck, Hippotragus leucophaeus 4, and roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568996: Kalij pheasant, Lophura leucomelanos 1, great curassow, Crax rubra, male 2, female 3, endangered helmeted curassow, Pauxi pauxi 4, and band-tailed guan, Penelope argyrotis 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4568998: Comparison of mountain heights including Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas, Chimborazo, Mont Blanc, Mount Etna, and the mountain towns of Chota (Micuipampa), Quito, and Cinchoma. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569005: Open cluster CR 399 in Little Fox - The Coathanger (CR 399) in Vulpecula - The Hanger cluster or Brocchi cluster is not a true cluster of stars but an asterism in the constellation Little Fox. CR 399, Brocchi's Cluster, is also known as the “” Coathanger””. It is a distinctive asterism, but not a true star cluster. It is visible to the unaided eye off the head of Cygnus, the Swan in Vulpecula, and resolved into its namesake shape in a telescope or pair of binoculars / Bridgeman Images

PIX4569009: Open cluster Trumpler 5 in Unicorn - Open cluster Trumpler 5 in Monoceros - Trumpler 5 is a cluster of stars aged 125 million years. Image obtained by Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope As they age, open clusters of stars begin to lose their identity. This is partly because the brighter members tend to self - destruct as supernovae, and, though the group members share a common motion through space, they are only loosely bound. Thus stars drift away from the cluster in a process that accelerates with time. However, some clusters are big enough to retain their identity much longer than usual, and Trumpler 5 is one such. Its age is estimated to be 125 million years, and it must have been a spectacular sight in its youth. It seems to be at the edge of the Monoceros molecular cloud, where star formation is continuing new generations of young clusters / Bridgeman Images