Planetary System NEWBOOK - Wang Zheng

- Wang Zheng

There are at least four conditions that need to be satisfied to make this photo possible

The brightest light in the image is from the Cape Palliser Lighthouse

' This chart was included in Jaillot's

a book for under-5s to learn all about the planets

Planetary System NEWBOOK - Wang ZhengThis coloured lithograph presents an image of the solar system, to Uranus. Surrounding the central diagram are four images: a telescope, a globe, a sundial and a book. The telescope appears with the names Galileo and Metius, referring to Galileo Galilei, one of the first to turn a telescope to the sky in 1609, and Jacob Metius, a Dutch optician, who filed a patent claim for the telescope in 1608. The terrestrial globe refers to the astronomers