A Selection Of Illustrations From

Wonders Of The Heavens

By Kenneth Heuer

Illustrated By Matthew Kalmenoff

Published by Dodd, Mead & Company

Copyright 1954 by Kenneth Heuer

Charming illustrations from a 1950's book. Click on the thumbnail to see the full sized picture. Most of the full sized pictures are around 70k in size.

The jacket of Wonders Of The Heavens.

"A fireball brightly illuminating the night sky for a few moments"

"A fantastic picture of Saturn floating like a cork in an ocean of water."

"What the surface of Venus may look like."

"Some of the wonders of the heavens about which you will read in this book."

"The zodiacal light observed after sunset in the spring."

"The first earth-men on Mars observing possible inhabitants of the red planet."

"An imaginary world illuminated by a double star."

"The constellations Canis Major, Orion and Taurus {from left to right} as seen on winter evenings as the observer in northern latitudes faces south."

"The return of Halley's comet in 1986."