Nebulae observed through a 20-foot focal length reflecting telescope Size:XL: 100 x 70cm South west view of St

South west view of St Mary

In the foreground two horsemen can be seen

was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664

'The Cholic'

29th April 1952

Nebulae observed through a 20-foot focal length reflecting telescope Size:XL: 100 x 70cm South west view of StPlate 17 figures 1 15 for the paper 'Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 437 451. Figure 1 shows Messier's object M. 98, a spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices; figure 2 is M. 53, a globular cluster also in Coma Berenices; the remainder not identified by Herschel. This original figure in portrait format with the