Aquarius, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis mb-code RS-9401 ' Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish

' Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist and physician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753

'Dog with Wild Duck'

Oval portrait of either Willaim Faithorne the Elder

in the Great Hall of the Coal Exchange

He was made a baron in 1934

Aquarius, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis mb-code RS-9401 ' Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) SwedishThe constellation Aquarius (the water carrier). Map 9 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 Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729