This is not a pulp magazine cover. The source material is a page from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1854), page 163, containing J. Hippisley's observational paper describing Saturn's shadow cast upon its rings through a Newtonian reflector of 9¾-inch aperture. No cover art, cover-line typography, or genre illustration exists here to describe. The text records careful telescopic observation — a faint, curvilinear shadow line on Saturn's outer ring — alongside a cost recapitulation for an observatory building. No wall label for a pulp magazine cover can honestly be written from this document.
About this artifact
- Date
- 1854
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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