Venus at first internal contact with the Sun J. Lyons and Co Seeradhwaj Janaka (more popularly known

Seeradhwaj Janaka (more popularly known merely as Raja Janak or King Janak) proposed a test of strength in which suitors vying for his daughter Sita's hand in marriage would have to string the great bow of Lord Shiva

View of the opening of new London Bridge by William VI and Queen Adelaide

View of a brew house on Stoney Lane

3rd February 1983

View of Elizabeth Powis

Venus at first internal contact with the Sun J. Lyons and Co Seeradhwaj Janaka (more popularly knownView taken at Mageroya, Nordkapp, Norway, during the 1769 Transit of Venus. Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact by Wiliam Bayley.' Published as plate 13 for the paper 'Astronomical observations, made at the North Cape, for the Royal Society', by William Bayly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59, 1769, pp. 262 272. William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at