Method of observing the Sun at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Product:Framed picture 15th March 1974

15th March 1974

The car was originally built for the 1922 French Grand Prix and is the oldest Aston Martin still running

26th April 1956

sitting on the grass

This relates to the outbreak of a number of strikes during the year

Method of observing the Sun at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Product:Framed picture 15th March 1974Interior view of a darkened chamber at the old Royal Observatory building, with a refracting telescope projecting an image of the Sun. The observatory was completed in 1676: in that year there were both solar eclipses and a transit of Mercury. Plate 3 (left half detail) from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta (London, 1676) a series of engravings commissioned by Sir Jonas Moore, the leading force in the construction and equipping