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Description: | This wooden box contains approximately 77 miscellaneous lantern slides that depict astronomical phenomena. The slides are mostly labelled "BAA" (British Astronomical Association) and, among these, several are labelled as being of the collections of individuals who were BAA members and frequent lecturers: Rev. E. Ledger, Sir R.S. Ball, Augustus Wheeler (whose name and address is printed inside the bos), E.W. Maunder and Mr J.A. Hardcastle. The slides were part of the BAA's own collection for some time before being acquired by a private individual. Several slides are hand-drawn or hand-written diagrams or data produced during a lecture, while the rest include representations of the moon, comets, meteors, planets and eclipses, and reproductions of images from printed books, photographs and contemporary cartoons. One slide shows a cartoon called 'Searching for Halley's Comet' by W. Heath Robinson, 1910, there are two representations of Mars and the Martian 'canals', and a late-19th-century print of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. See also AST1121.
Set of 77. Negative number D1214/10.
caption: Lantern Slide - observatory
caption: Lantern Slides - moon
caption: Lantern Slide - nebulae
caption: Lantern Slide
caption: Lantern Slide - comet
caption: Lantern Slides - observatory
caption: Lantern Slide - Royal Observatory, Greenwich
caption: Lantern Slides Box | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | British Astronomical Association lantern slides | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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