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Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).

Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky. Colour engraving, 1868.

Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.

Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint after H. Robinson, 1783.

Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.

Specimen philosophicum inaugurale, de meteoris ignitis ... / submittit Fridericus Bernardus Albinus.

The world of waters, or, Recreations in hydrology : What is a voltaic battery? : 'Observations of shooting stars on te nights of the 10th and 11th of August, 1839' : 'On the periodic shooting stars, and on shooting stars in general / Rosina Maria Zornlin.

A goodly gallerye : William Fulke's book of meteors / edited with an introduction and notes by Theodore Hornberger.

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Specimen philosophicum inaugurale, de meteoris ignitis ... / submittit Fridericus Bernardus Albinus.

Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.

Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).

The world of waters, or, Recreations in hydrology : What is a voltaic battery? : 'Observations of shooting stars on te nights of the 10th and 11th of August, 1839' : 'On the periodic shooting stars, and on shooting stars in general / Rosina Maria Zornlin.

A goodly gallerye : William Fulke's book of meteors / edited with an introduction and notes by Theodore Hornberger.