Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula mb-width 1720 A stern looking Francis Joseph

A stern looking Francis Joseph rests one foot on the block in a very dominant stance

9th September 1977

His Majesty's Gardener at Kensington

1st November 1967

Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula mb-width 1720 A stern looking Francis JosephPlate 8 figures 1, 2, 3 and 5 from the paper 'On the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 213 266. Illustrations to support Herschel's speculations on the larger structures formed by stars. Figure 1 shows an ideal arrangement of four sections of cones of stars, the stars filling the space most evenly. Figure 2 shows an alternative arrangement with one star at the apex