A compendium of astronomy: being a concise description of the most interesting phenomena of the heavens (1849)

Record Details:

Title:
A compendium of astronomy: being a concise description of the most interesting phenomena of the heavens
Date:
1849
Publisher:
London: Carpenter and Westley
Volume:
A Compendium of astronomy: being a concise description of the most interesting phenomena of the heavens
Leaf #:
00041
Language:
English
Collection:
Magic Lantern and Lantern Slide Catalog
Format:
Catalogs
Contributor:
Toverlantaarnmuseum Scheveningen (TOMU)
Sponsor:
A Million Pictures
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Lecture notes with comments to a set of astronomical lanterns slides of the same title. The full title of the lecture is 'A compendium of astronomy: being a concise description of the most interesting phenomena of the heavens intended to accompany a series of thirty diagrams, contained in single sliders, the paintings three inches in diameter exhibited by the improved phantasmagoria lantern'. The slides and the notes were produced by Carpenter & Westley. The lecture explains what is seen in the images that were projected from lantern slides on to a screen. This version is from 1849 but an earlier version from 1837 is also known. Carpenter and Westley's lantern slide set on astronomy was widely used in (popular) education on the subject, and examples of slides can be found in several collections. To learn more about Carpenter and Westley and to see examples of slides in their collection, visit the Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource http://slides.uni-trier.de/organisation/index.php?id=1000618 .
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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LIST OP MOVEABLE ASTRONOMICAL SLIDERS (the motion produced by back-work), PACKED IN A BOX WITH A LOCK. No. I. The Solar System, shewing the Revolution of all the Planets with their Satellites round the Sun. No. II. ihe Earth’s Annual Motion round the Sun, shewing the Parallelism of its Axis, thereby producing the Seasons. No III. This Diagram illustrates the cause of Spring and Neap Tides, and snows the Moon s Phases during its revolution. No. IV. This Diagram illustrates the apparent Direct and Retrograde Motion of \ enus or Mercury ; and also its Stationary Appearance. No. V. A Diagram to prove the Earth’s Rotundity. No. VI. This Diagram illustrates the Eccentric Revolution of a Comet round TT 1 siews the appearance of its Tail at different points of its Orbit. 1 No. VII. The Diurnal Motion of the Earth, shewing the Rising and Setting of the Sun, illustrating the cause of Day and Night by the Earth’s rotation upon its own Axis. No. VIIL This Diagram illustrates the Annual Motion of the Earth round the Sun, with the Monthly Lunations of the Moon. No. IX. This Diagram shows the various Eclipses of the Sun, with the Transit of Venus. , B - There is sometimes added to this set a Slider to shew the different Eclipses of the Moon ; also one to shew the Eclipses of Jupiter’s Moons ; they are numbered X, XI.