Gemini, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:L: 80 x 60cm bearing rolls of cloth

bearing rolls of cloth

towards Regent's Park

a Roman sandal and three daggers

Napier was the first British constructor to build cars especially for motor racing

Gemini, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:L: 80 x 60cm bearing rolls of clothThe constellation Gemini (the twins), with Canis Minor. Map 3 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729