1903 Popular Astronomy Plate IV : Phases of the Moon
By: William & Alexander Keith Johnston
Date: 1903 (published) Edinburgh
Dimensions: 9.75 x 12 inches (24.5 x 30.5 cm)
Plate IV of Thomas Heath's Popular Astronomy presents the moon in seven phases. At center is a large depiction of a full moon from a drawing in Bode's Jahrbuch from 1825. In the top corners are a crating of the Crater Copernicus by Secchi, and a photograph of the moon by M.M. Loewy and Puiseun.
This chromolithograph print was one of twenty-one plates published in Thomas Heath's 1903 edition of Popular Astronomy. The plates were produced by W & A.K. Johnston, Scottish brothers who set up their own printing business in Edinburgh after preliminary study under the Scottish globe maker James Kirkwood.
The prints produced for the Popular Astronomy offer a unique view of our understanding of the Universe at the turn of the 20th Century.
Condition: This print is in A condition with vivid original color, on clean paper surrounded by full and even margins on all sides.
Inventory #11528