Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Soane 'The Eve of St Agnes'

'The Eve of St Agnes'

View of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Flamsteed House from the bottom of the hill in Greenwich Park

The title could be a play on words

He is shown wearing a black jacket and waistcoat

Theoretical stellar structures and a ring nebula Soane 'The Eve of St Agnes'Plate 8 figures 1, 2, 3 and 5 from the paper 'On the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 213 266. Illustrations to support Herschel's speculations on the larger structures formed by stars. Figure 1 shows an ideal arrangement of four sections of cones of stars, the stars filling the space most evenly. Figure 2 shows an alternative arrangement with one star at the apex