Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas Wright's "construction" of the Great Comet of 1744

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas Wright's "construction" of the Great Comet of 1744, made by S. Peel

Details

Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1988-288

Materials:: brass

type:: comet

credit:: Tesseract

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.