Wenceslas Hollar
Pablo Picasso. Rideau pour le Ballet Mercure. 1924.
Alain Manesson Mallet. Description du Monde Entier. 1719.
Sir Robert Ball. The Photograph of the Stars in their Diurual Motion Round the Pole, Path of the Moon's Shadow and Penumbra upon the Surface of the Earth during the Total Eclipse of the Sun, Comparative Sizes of Earth Mars Mercury and the Moon, Rotation of the Poles, Mars and One of it’s Satellites, The Milky Way, Mars in 1877 (top to bottom). In The High Heavens. 1910.
J.E. Muller, Mercury Emerging from the Sea; Wunder-Materie, 1707.
Cristoforo de Predis. Saturnus, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercurius, Luna (top to bottom). De Sphaera. 1450s.
Ivan Aivazovsky, The Brig Mercury at Sea, 1848.
Geographicus: Black Brothers Chart of the Solar System, J. Bartholomew & W. H. M Earlane, Edinburgh, Scotland, ca. 1873.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio), Mercury Leading Geography, between 1689 and 1709.
An assortment of Orreries; 1. New Portable Orrery (Detail), W. Jones (Made & sold by W. & S. Jones), 30 Holborn, London'. [Second inscription reads 'A table of the principal affections of the Planets, January 1st 1794. Published as the Act directs by W & S Jones']. 2. 'The Four Wheel'd Orrery' from A dissertation upon the Phaenomena of the Harvest Moon; also, The description and use of a New Four-Wheel'd Orrery, and an Essay upon the Moon's turning round on her own axis, by James Ferguson (London, 1747). 3. & 4. Thomas Wright's 'Machina Coelestis', 'The Orrery' or the 'Great Orrery' (Vandergucht), 1730. 5. James Ferguson, (Engravings); Astronomical 'Orrery' based upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles of planetary orbit; reproducing the movements of the planets Mercury, Venus and the Earth, c.1790. [James Ferguson (1710–1776) was a natural philosopher and inventor of scientific instruments. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System, based on Copernican principles].
