- Copernicus De Rev
- The title page of Kepler’s “Astronomia Nova” (1609), in which he advanced his first two laws. (Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)
- The title page of Kepler’s “Harmonices Mundi” (1619), in which he advanced his third law. (Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)
- The title page of Kepler’s “Rudolphine Tables,” from which he predicted transits of Mercury and of Venus in 1631.
- Copernicus’s famous sun-centered diagram from his “De Revolutionibus” (1543). (Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)
- Digges’s version, the first in English, of Copernicus’s sun-centered diagram, published in several editions starting in 1576. (Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)
- Kepler: from the Rudolphine Tables (1627)
- Cover of the US Naval Observatory book “Instructions for Observing the Transit of Venus” with the signature of Truman Henry Safford, Director of Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory from 1876-1902.