Model intended to show error adjustments in zodiacal light observation Product:Postcard Punch often entertained its readers

Punch often entertained its readers with its depictions of the lives of women

Life in the Mirror Series

Stained glass window design

22nd September 1964

Richard Briers plays Tom Good

Model intended to show error adjustments in zodiacal light observation Product:Postcard Punch often entertained its readersView of a model designed by Piazzi Smyth to demonstrate the use of his instrument for observing zodiacal light. Illustration from the unpublished paper 'Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light', by Charles Piazzi Smyth. The paper was written or completed on 25 March 1848 and received by the Royal Society on 13 April. Original: ink on paper. 1848