Optics Plate VIII Frame:Natural Take your little astronaut on

Take your little astronaut on a journey from our planet out into the furthest reaches of the universe

I took this image on the final night of a seven-week road trip throughout the western US

Ted is used to going on his adventures around the Solar System

the year of his death

William Darton & Son

Optics Plate VIII Frame:Natural Take your little astronaut onA hand coloured engraving of optical instruments including telescopes and a camera obscura, engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis in 1820 as part of its treatment of optics. George Biddel Airy, Astronomer Royal, recalled that he owed much of his early education in optics and the other sciences to the Encyclopedia Londinensis. He described it in his Autobiography as "a work which without being high in any respect is one of the most generally useful