Method of observing the Sun at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Size:Large: 7 x 5in pulled down in 1760

pulled down in 1760

Draught horses pull an MG Magnette up a hill

View showing the bay of an aisle next to the crossing

HAPPALES JACCHUS

the First Lord of the Admiralty

Method of observing the Sun at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Size:Large: 7 x 5in pulled down in 1760Interior view of a darkened chamber at the old Royal Observatory building, with a refracting telescope projecting an image of the Sun. The observatory was completed in 1676: in that year there were both solar eclipses and a transit of Mercury. Plate 3 (left 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 construction and equipping