Description
Punch's Compliments to Lord Stanley
he hacked off the duke's head in four or five strokes
French zoologist and anatomist
The upper left section shows the City of Westminster and River Thames
'Pastorale'
Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland mb-code BK011383 Punch's Compliments to Lord StanleyLord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland, 1924 1926. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800 1867), Irish astronomer and engineer, built what was then the largest telescope in the world on his estate at Birr (then known as Parsonstown), Ireland. The instrument was known as 'the Leviathan of Parsonstown'. With it Lord Rosse discovered 15 spiral nebulae, and named the Crab nebula. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter
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