At 06:15 PM 4/6/2004, Walter Branch wrote:
Does anyone know of a place where I might be able to purchase prints of these two meteor-related images:
http:/www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/leonid1833.jpg
This is a woodcut of the meteor leonid shower of 1833
Actually this woodcut shows the 1799 shower and is loosely based upon observations by Andrew Ellicott Douglas from a ship off the Florida Keys.
I think I have a reference at home which gives a source for the image.
This image was published in _The Midnight Sky_ by Edwin Dunkin, published in London in 1870. Dunkin was chief assistant to
Astronomer Royal George Airy. _The Midnight Sky_ was among the
popular works Dunkin wrote about astronomy.
-- Philip R. "Pib" Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pibburns.com/
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