On the source of power in the voltaic pile, continued
A Royal Society paper by Michael Faraday, published in London in 1840 and bound for the scientific community, on the source of power in the voltaic pile. The picture shows a kneeling figure bearing a large armillary sphere on its shoulders, drawn in bold black line on a yellow ground, with the sphere's rings and ecliptic marked with Latin and German place names. A designer might take the strong outline style, the globe as a symbol of cosmic weight, and the yellow-and-black contrast.
