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Description: | print. engraving. The Universal Vicissitude of Seasons and the Liberation of Light Illustrated in the Orbis magnus: Demonstrating by true orthographic projections of the sphere on the plane of the eliptick the time of the sun-rise; sun-set Length of the day Night and Twy-light to all parts of the world. Particularly on the days of the sun's ingress to the several signs of the Zodiack By Tho[mas] Wright Author of the Synopsis of the Universe &c. London; Printed for Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, Bowles and Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard & Robert Wilkinson, 125 Fenchurch Street. [shows illustrations and symbols of the zodiac with The Explaination], 76 x 56cm, (71 x 45.5 cm to plate mark) | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | print | Temporal: | 1750-1760 | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1987-507/6 | Go to resource |
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