"It's a Wheel!"

"For several thousand years people supposed that the earth was a great platform surrounded by the sea to an unknown distance; and that the sun set in the sea and rose out of it."

Opening line from Astronomy without Mathematics by Sir Edmund Beckett, Sixth Edition (revised for the results of the transit of Venus).  Published 1876.  My particular copy was "Obtained by William Brown in the Examination of Science Classes held May 1877".  It was noted as the "Queen's Prize."

Well done, Curiosity.