Stephen Ellcock has pulled together some terrific “Pre-Space Age Images of the Heavens” on his Facebook page “The Celestial Archives.”
Here’s one I like: “Donati’s Comet, October 8, 1858 at 8 o’clock at night. From the walls of the Horse Gate.” (Or something like that; my Czecho-Slovak’s pretty sketchy.) Thanks, Mr. Ellcock.
