Annotation:
This is a collection of 35 images (as of February 2001) from the history of astronomy. It includes images of instruments, astronomers and observatories as well as astronomical pictures. Most of the images are from the nineteenth century or early twentieth century, such as an early map of the surface of Mars produced from 1894-1901 and a photograph of the solar corona from 1905. Some of the images, most often obtained by scanning old astronomical journals, are of fairly poor quality; they are probably more useful for historians of astronomy than for a general audience looking for interesting pictures of the heavens.