Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 'Maids Buy a Mop'

'Maids Buy a Mop'

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'Hair-Dressing by Electricity'

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'Appearance which should be seen from the Earth

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way mb-width 6084 'Maids Buy a Mop'Plate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration