Solar observatory at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia mb-code 1192983 In the foreground men attend

In the foreground men attend to bottles of wine

Head and shoulders portrait of Caroline Herschel

'A barber's shop'

looking north across the River Thames towards the City of London

Solar observatory at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia mb-code 1192983 In the foreground men attendView of a temporary astronomical observatory outside the city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia in Russia. Sheds and instrument platforms can be seen on the skyline grouped around an existing small church tower. The observatory was used to record the total solar eclipse visible in Russia on 7 August 1889. Extra illustration pasted before the title page of the book Eclipse totale du soleil Aout, 1887. issued in Russian [title page also in French] by the Socit