The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ct positions of the fixed stars and the planetary bodies could never beascertained. His methods and processes are explained by himself in theHistoria Ccelestis; they are many of them novel an
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ct positions of the fixed stars and the planetary bodies could never beascertained. His methods and processes are explained by himself in theHistoria Ccelestis; they are many of them novel and ingenious, and they bearmost honourable testimony both to his ability and zeal. Our limits preventus from entering uponthat long-vexed and fa-mous question of hisquarrel with Newtonand Halley, with respectto his obligations ofprinting his observa-tions. It is sufficientto say, that though thevexations to which hewas subjected must havebeen most grievous, yetscience reaped the bene-fit of the injustice donehim, and his own famehas been put upon amore solid foundation,by the compelled publi-cation of his works. Hal-ley had published an im-perfect and garbled ac-count of his observa-tions, which had beenforced from him. Thiscompelled him to under-take the publication ofhis works, in a greatmeasure at his own ex-pense. He lived onlylong enough to see partof the second volume ofthe Historia Ccelestis. PLAN OF GREENWICH OBSERVATORY,FROM FLAMSTEEDS DRAWING. •o The room for the mural arc. The room for the sextant. A perpendicular pole for the moveable telescopes. The place for keeping the telescope-tubes. A flower-garden. The well in which observations were sometimes made. through the press; and the work was finished and published six years after hisdeath, or in the year 1725, by the voluntary labours of his friends, Mr. Crosthwaitand Mr. Abraham Sharp. The preceding plan of the observatory, as it existed in the time of Flam-steed, will perhaps be interesting to the reader. The ori
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