Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.

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Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.
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"It happen'd as a boy, one night, / Did fly his tarsel of a kite, / The strangest long-wing'd hawk that flies, / That, like a bird of Paradise, / Or herald's martlet, has no legs, / Nor hatches young ones, nor lays eggs; / His train was six yards long, milk-white, / At th' end of which there hung a

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  • Source collection: Wellcome Collection
  • License: CC / Public Domain
  • Category: Space

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