The solar system displayed.
"To the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the State of Massachusetts & to the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania this plate is most humbly dedicated by their most obedient humble servant Bartholomew Burges." Appears in: A Short Account of the Solar System and of Comets in General (Boston: B. Edes, 1789). Includes illustrations of terrestrial and celestial globes and "A Table of the Diameters, Periods & c of the several Planets in the Solar System." Minor discolorations throughout. Mounted on cloth.
- Date
- 1789
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Burges, Bartholomew; Norman, John
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 5,442 × 6,682 pixels
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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
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Credit line
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