Donati's Comet, 10 October 1858 Size:S: 60 x 45cm East-West Berlin border

East-West Berlin border

Also showing horse drawn vehicles

View of Sir Christopher Wren's house

Zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton

Donati's Comet, 10 October 1858 Size:S: 60 x 45cm East-West Berlin borderAstronomical study of the head of Donati's Comet observed through the 15 inch refracting telescope at the observatory of Harvard College. Donati's Comet was one of the brightest to be seen in the 19th century and was the first to be photographed (by G. P. Bond and others). It was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati (1826 1873). Plate 2 from the monograph An account of Donati's Comet of 1858, by George P. Bond (Cambridge,