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An image showing ''The Zodiacal Light, as seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844''
An image showing ''The Zodiacal Light, as seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844'- reverse'
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'The Zodiacal Light, as seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844'

View of the zodiacal light above a South African landscape featuring a horseman fording the Breed River. Above him, on the riverbank, is a large house. In front of the rider there are two ducks in flight above the water. Illustration from the unpublished paper "Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light...", by Charles Piazzi Smyth. The paper was written or completed on 25 March 1848 and received by the Royal Society on 13 April. It is captioned below: "The Zodiacal light, as seen on the Breed River, at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844"
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Object Details

ID: PAH6023
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Places: Cape of Good Hope
Date made: June 1844
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements: Overall: 280 x 380 mm