Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)

Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) physicist

Dressed in a red jacket and waistcoat

Cup Final Muscle

London in 1872

Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)Plate 8 figures 1, 2, 3 and 5 from the paper 'On the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 213 266. Illustrations to support Herschel's speculations on the larger structures formed by stars. Figure 1 shows an ideal arrangement of four sections of cones of stars, the stars filling the space most evenly. Figure 2 shows an alternative arrangement with one star at the apex