Mural quadrant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Finish:Rolled A dinner at the Crown

A dinner at the Crown and Anchor celebrating Charles James's Fox's birthday

Plate 16 from the book Icones rerum naturalium

(Picture) Pele in Action

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Mural quadrant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Finish:Rolled A dinner at the CrownInterior view showing an astronomer on a flight of stairs with one hand on the wall mounted 10 foot quadrant with a telescopic sight designed for the old Royal Observatory building by Robert Hooke. A table with an inkwell, dividers and a straight rule can be seen below. Plate 3 (right half detail) from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta (London, 1676) a series of engravings commissioned by Sir Jonas Moore, the leading force in the