Planetary System NEWBOOK - Wang Zheng

- Wang Zheng

between Mars and Jupiter

Our Royal Museums Greenwich Terra Nova cap features a bold design inspired by the emblem of the 1912 British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Robert F Scott

I shot this panorama scene while night-time fog hung low over riverside cottonwood trees and the distant mountains of the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness glowed from the light of countless stars

recalled that he owed much of his early education in optics and the other sciences to the Encyclopedia Londinensis

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