Asa Smith, A Cut Section of the Sun...

Asa Smith (Artist And Editor)Smith’s Illustrated AstronomyA Cut Section Of The Sun; Spots On The Sun; Remarkable Spots That Have Been Discovered Upon The Sun; Transits Of Mercury & Venus Until The Year 1900Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Boston, C.A. Alvord, et al. (printers)Vincent L. Dill, New York (stereotyper)Chase & Nichols, Boston: 1848Daniel Burgess & Co., 60 John Street, New York: 1852Samuel F. Nichols, Boston: 1860 & 1866Hand-colored woodblock printsSheet size: 11 x 9 in. Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy was the most popular American pictorial astronomy guide of the 19th century, with numerous diagrams demonstrating or showing principles of planetary motion and features, other astronomical phenomena, the moon, and the constellations.