The Universal Vicissitude of Seasons
- Made:
- 1818
Print. Engraving. The Universal Vicissitude of Seasons and the Liberation of Light Illustrated in the Orbis magnus: Demonstrating by true orthographic projections of the sphere on the plane of the eliptick the time of the sun-rise; sun-set Length of the day Night and Twy-light to all parts of the world. Particularly on the days of the sun's ingress to the several signs of the Zodiack By Tho[mas] Wright Author of the Synopsis of the Universe &c. London; Printed for Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, Bowles and Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard & Robert Wilkinson, 125 Fenchurch Street. Bearing the watermark W. Thomas 1818.
This nineteenth century print of Thomas Wright of Durham’s mid-eighteenth-century work shows illustrations and symbols of the zodiac with an explanation beneath.