'The four wheel'd orrery' vinegar Jack Brabham racing a Brabham-Repco

Jack Brabham racing a Brabham-Repco BT19

His best-known work is the two-volume A history of the Royal Society

Arfons survived without serious injury

'The brilliancy of Venus [top left of image] was a spectacle which was naturally contemplated as in harmony with the rest of the day

The model for the painting is possibly George White

'The four wheel'd orrery' vinegar Jack Brabham racing a Brabham-RepcoThe four wheel'd orrery' from A dissertation upon the phaenomena of the harvest Moon; also, The description and use of a new four wheel'd orrery, and an Essay upon the Moon's turning round on her own axis, by James Ferguson (London, 1747). James Ferguson (17101776) was a natural philosopher and inventor of scientific instruments. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System, based on Copernican principles. Original: engraving. 1747