Title

Total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857). Artist: Anon

Caption

Total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857). Bue Island, Norway, 28 July 1851, at the end of totality, with light just beginning to return. Edinburgh Observatory sent an expedition to the island to make observations of the eclipse. From Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh, 1857).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1857

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_054

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,5Mb (1,6Mb) / 17,7in x 10,6in / 5311 x 3192 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation light mountain mountains country science ship ships island Norway telescope astronomy British geography color colour Scotland eclipse location SCOTTISH century solar eclipse Britain expedition natural phenomena 19th century water transport nineteenth century Scots Oxford Science Archive geographical feature TGN total eclipse chromolithograph Anon Anonymous chromolithograph