Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 who sits in St Edward's

who sits in St Edward's chair

St Marylebone

Panorama of London from the top of the Monument

' There follows an extended quotation from Voltaire commencing: 'LES ITALIENS CES PEUPLES

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 who sits in St Edward'sPlate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration