Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Single Study of a porpoise skeleton

Study of a porpoise skeleton

churchyard of All Saints

Formal photographic portrait of William Henry Besant

Matthew Wood and Robert Waithman cheer him on

in the civil parish of Forrabury and Minster

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Single Study of a porpoise skeletonMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 7 from the paper "On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them", by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south, showing the position of the telescope when a man enters the tube to fix the small speculum