'Calx carbonata' [Ammonite with crystals] mb-height 5108 Church of St Mary Magdalen

Church of St Mary Magdalen

View with figures standing at a railing in the foreground

The driver waits for the go ahead to race

With a view of the exterior of the Chapel

Plate 15 figure 1 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space

'Calx carbonata' [Ammonite with crystals] mb-height 5108 Church of St Mary MagdalenFossil ammonite section with two details of calcium carbonate crystals, here termed 'crystallized carbonate of lime, lenticular equiaxed'. Plate 12 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that the fossil 'is the Helmintholithus Ammonites of Linn. Gmel. abundant in many parts of Great Britain.' The