Diagrams of the zodiacal light as seen in spring Product:Canvas from the Traction Avant catalogue

from the Traction Avant catalogue

connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe

The sultan's coach is outside a temporary reception hall erected in Guildhall Yard

whilst France and Italy change guard

Fire screen seller of the late 17th century whose cry was 'I have Screenes if you desier to keep your Buty from ye fire'

Diagrams of the zodiacal light as seen in spring Product:Canvas from the Traction Avant catalogueFour diagrams of the appearance of the zodiacal light as it would appear when observed on 21 March at a latitude of 56 degrees south (figures 1 and 2) and at 56 degrees north (figures 3 and 4). The light is shown as lenticular in shape and each diagram is marked with lines of the equator, poles, horizon and ecliptic. Illustration from the unpublished paper 'Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light', by Charles Piazzi Smyth. The