Hydra, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:S: 60 x 45cm Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlay

Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlay

Interior view of the Salt Tower within the Tower of London

View of the 'new' theatre

Punch looks to the future

A British Farmer looks down upon the resting Liberal Prime Minister

Hydra, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:S: 60 x 45cm Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlayThe constellation Hydra (the sea serpent), with Crater (the cup), Corvus (the crow or raven), Sextans (the sextant) and Virgo (the virgin). Map 14 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