'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:L: 90 x 60cm and within three weeks the

and within three weeks the damage had caused the cable to fail

Plate 21 figures 7-9 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity'

who patented a saw mill in Limehouse

In February 1873

She wears a hat very similar to that of the woman on the left

'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:L: 90 x 60cm and within three weeks theSketch showing the planet Venus at ingress on its passage across the face of the Sun. Detail from a letter by Samuel Horsley, giving an account of the Transit of Venus observed at Oxford, England, using an 18 inch reflecting telescope. The illustration appeared as plate 8 of the published paper 'Venus observed upon the Sun at Oxford, June 3, 1769', by Samuel Horsley, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59 (1769) pp. 183 188.