Antique Space Drawings By Étienne Trouvelot

Thanks to Rebecca J. Rosen of the Atlantic for pointing out that some 19th-century drawings of space by French astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot have been digitized. Trouvelot is infamous for accidentally introducing the gypsy moth into America when he emigrated in 1851.

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“The Planet Jupiter”:


“Auroura Borealis”:


“Zodiacal Light”:

“Mare Humorum”:

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