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Hand-colored engraving of numbered comets with long tails, a central orbit diagram, and meteor shower landscapes below.

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Comets and Aerolites, John Emslie (1851). Via artnap.com

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A hand-colored engraved plate titled Comets and Aerolites presents oval vignettes of numbered comets with streaming tails, a central diagram of a comet's orbit around the sun, and two small landscape scenes beneath showing meteor showers. The printed text explains the nature of comets and aerolites and the reference key identifies each figure. The print was made by John Emslie and published in London in 1851.