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Charles Piazzi Smyth
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English: 'The Zodiacal Light, as seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844'

View of the zodiacal light above a South African landscape featuring a horseman fording the Breed River. Above him, on the riverbank, is a large house. In front of the rider there are two ducks in flight above the water. Illustration from the unpublished paper "Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light...", by Charles Piazzi Smyth. The paper was written or completed on 25 March 1848 and received by the Royal Society on 13 April. It is captioned below: "The Zodiacal light, as seen on the Breed River, at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844"

'The Zodiacal Light, as seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844'- reverse
Date June 1844
date QS:P571,+1844-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
Dimensions Overall: 280 x 380 mm
Notes Box Title: Herschel Collection 1.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/145970
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