Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer mb-code BK004454 A woman stands with a

A woman stands with a rope round her neck

On the first he observed the transit of Venus and charted the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia

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British soldiers searching captured German prisoners

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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer mb-code BK004454 A woman stands with aGiovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer, (c1900). Portrait of Schiaparelli (1835 1910) and a lunar landscape with the rising of the sun. Trade card, one from a series on astronomers produced by Liebig extract of meat, (c1900).