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William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903. Artist: Spy

William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903. Artist: Spy

1-157-204 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903. Huggins (1824-1910) was the inventor of the solar spectroscope and the first to distinguish nebulae from galaxies based on differences in their spectra. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, April 1903.

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Creator
  1. Sir Leslie Matthew Ward, attributed to: British: Illustrator for Vanity Fair, artist, painter, caricaturist
Subject
  1. William Huggins: British: Astronomer
Medium
  1. Lithograph
Picture Type
  1. Caricature
  2. Portrait
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Artistic Representations Portraits

Artistic Representations Caricatures

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Science & Nature Astronomy

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3211x5433
File Size : 51,110kb

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  1. 001549
  1. 001549
  1. 0460000181
  1. 1-157-204
  1. 1157204
  1. 181
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