Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 36 x 28cm Charles Dingley is sawing through

Charles Dingley is sawing through the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights

To the Fenians

This van had only one previous owner before coming to the National Motor Museum in 1986

This was taken from a case of chronic hydrocephalus

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 36 x 28cm Charles Dingley is sawing throughPlate 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