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”:
