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English: This is a scan of the 1883 photo of the Orion Nebula made by Andrew Ainslie Common (1841–1903) for which he won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884.
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Source Andrew Ainslie Common (1841-1903) - This scan is from p. 29 of The Colour of the Stars by Malin and Murdin (1984, Cambridge University Press)
Author Andrew Ainslie Common (1841-1903)
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This picture is the frontispiece in Agnes Clerke's History of Astronomy (1902, 4th edition)

A high quality scan: https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/file/ami85jpg

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