Art, Symbol & Imagination
Comparative Sizes of the Planets
A row of tiny planetary discs expands into the large globes of the outer planets, with Saturn’s rings projecting beyond its sphere. Names printed below identify the bodies. The caption credits Chambers’s Astronomy for the comparison reproduced in Astor’s illustrated romance.
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Reproduced from Chambers’s Astronomy. "Comparative Sizes of the Planets" [editorial title]. In A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future, John Jacob Astor; illustrations by Dan Beard. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894; illustrated edition., 1894, D. Appleton and Company. Source scan leaf 174. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0391-0167
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Reproduced from Chambers’s Astronomy. Comparative Sizes of the Planets. A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future. Scan leaf 174. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0391-0167