Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm Tycho Brahe's equatorial armillary sphere

Tycho Brahe's equatorial armillary sphere ('Armillae aequatoriae') in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven

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the nearest star to the Sun

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Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm Tycho Brahe's equatorial armillary spherePlate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration