Beijing - dragon support on the New Armilla, made in China in 1744 AD and designed to measure true solar time as well as the ascensional differences and declinations of celestial bodies. The Old Observatory, Beijing, China.

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Photo credit: © Charles Walker Collection / Alamy / Afripics
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