Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Soane View of Beaufoy's Vinegar Works

View of Beaufoy's Vinegar Works

Church of St Vedast Foster Lane

shewing the Cause of the Descent of the Mercury in the Barometer

View of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Flamsteed House from the bottom of the hill in Greenwich Park

Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Soane View of Beaufoy's Vinegar WorksPlate 8 figures 1, 2, 3 and 5 from the paper 'On the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 213 266. Illustrations to support Herschel's speculations on the larger structures formed by stars. Figure 1 shows an ideal arrangement of four sections of cones of stars, the stars filling the space most evenly. Figure 2 shows an alternative arrangement with one star at the apex