Constellations seen from the seashore. Group of observers on rocks by the sea,observing constellations in the night sky. The caption with the artwork names the constellations as: The Swan (Cygnus),The Lyre (Lyra),Hercules,The Crown (Corona Borealis),The Herdsman (Bootes),The Eagle (Aquila),The Serpent (Serpens),The Balance (Libra),The Scorpion (Scorpius),and Sagittarius. Also seen is the Milky Way (diagonal,white),a side-on internal view of our galaxy. This artwork,by French illustrator Leon Benett (1838-1917),is from Astronomical Myths (1877) by the British geologist John Frederick Blake (1839-1906) |