PIX4591420: Light pollution and starry sky - Light pollution and starry sky - Breton chapel creating light pollution. In the sky, the constellations of the Great Bear, the Bovier and the Boreale Crown. 11 October 2006, Tronoen (Finistere). Light pollution and constellations; Ursa major, Botes, and corona borealis. October 11 2006, Tronoen (Finistere - France) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594532: Constellations of the Wall Quadrant, Bovier, Hunting Dogs, Hair of Berenice - Constellations of Boots and Canes Venatici - Plate extracted from the Mirror of Urania by Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1825 The Wall Quadrant is a missing constellation. Urania's Mirror, by Jehoshaphat Aspin, 1825. The constellation of Quadrans Muralis, above Boots, is a former constellation, no longer represented / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594561: End of an Autumn Night - End of an Autumn Night - In this photo taken at the end of the night at the end of autumn, the winter constellations lie to the right (the Big Dog, Orion and the Gems) while rise to the left of the spring constellations: the Boreale Crown, the Bovier above, followed by the tail of the Great Bear, the Virgin then the Raven with the Lion higher. In overprint, the mythological forms of these constellations, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. 19 November 2006, Quimper (Finistere - France). End of an automn night with at right, winter constellations setting and at left spring constellations rising. Constellation mythological forms from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added. November 19 2006, Quimper (Finistere - France) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4715954: Representation of a naval architect, he held in his hands the miniature model of the ship he built Detail. Watercolour drawing and ink from the manuscript “Customs of the Venitians”” by Jan van Grevenbroeck (or Giovanni Grevembroch (Grevenbroch) (1731-1807), 18th century., Grevenbroeck, Jan van (1731-1807) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4725287: Capelin (from France or Mediterreanee) - Arrival of a fishing vessel from the New World in a European port - Poor cod, Trisopterus minutus Gadus minutus 86, and the arrival of a cod fishing ship from the New World to a European port 87. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4727311: Funeral in Peguan, Burma (Myanmar) - Strong water extracted from the Encyclopedie of Natural History: Humanite, by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811), 1804 - Funeral in Peguan, Kingdom of Burma - Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's “” Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind,” Augsburg, 1804 / Bridgeman Images