[meteorite-list] Have You Seen These?

From: Philip R. Burns <pib_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:11 2004
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20040406231343.038e3ec0_at_pibburns.com>

At 06:58 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote:

>At 06:15 PM 4/6/2004, Walter Branch wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know of a place where I might be able to purchase prints of
>>these two meteor-related images:
>>
>>http:/www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/leonid1833.jpg
>>
>>This is a woodcut of the meteor leonid shower of 1833
>
>Actually this woodcut shows the 1799 shower and is loosely based upon
>observations by Andrew Ellicott Douglas from a ship off the Florida Keys.
>I think I have a reference at home which gives a source for the image.

This image was published in _The Midnight Sky_ by Edwin Dunkin, published
in London in 1870. Dunkin was chief assistant to
Astronomer Royal George Airy. _The Midnight Sky_ was among the
popular works Dunkin wrote about astronomy.


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Received on Wed 07 Apr 2004 12:13:49 AM PDT