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 . this room is built Mr. Lowndes makes use of an equatorial ladder, a de-scription of which is given by Captain Smyth in his excellent work the Celes-tial Cycle. THE OBSERVATORY OF TH
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 . this room is built Mr. Lowndes makes use of an equatorial ladder, a de-scription of which is given by Captain Smyth in his excellent work the Celes-tial Cycle. THE OBSERVATORY OF THE REV. J. B. READE, , AT STONE VICARAGE. The observatoryat Stone, nearAylesbury, hasrecently beenerected by theRev. J. B. Readeupon the vicaragelawn. It is anelegant Grecianbuilding, consist-ing of a transit-room and a towerfor the transit-in-strument is sup-ported on solidpiers of Bathstone. The object-glass, 4j in. indiameter, is an proposed mounting of mr. reades equatorial. interesting speci- men of the skillof Mr. Peter Dollond, and the solid brass-work mounting is equally creditableto Mr. Barrow, of Oxenden Street, London. The sidereal clock in the transit-room is by Dent. The objectrglass of the equa-torial, 7 5 in. in diameter and 12 focal length, is by Newman ofYork. The greatest care was takenin its construction, and it well re-pays the large amount of labour.
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