Tycho Brahe's Bipartite arc SB View of St James's Park

View of St James's Park from Rosamond's Pond

Scene depicting the attempt made by Margaret Nicholson to assassinate King George III at the entrance to St James's Palace

Interior view of the music room in Vauxhall Gardens

Britannia tries to console G Ward Hunt

View from the River Thames with Fenning's Wharf in the centre

Tycho Brahe's Bipartite arc SB View of St James's ParkEngraving of Tycho Brahe's bipartite arc for measuring small angular distances of stars ('Arcus bipartitus minoribus siderum distantiis inserviens'), in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. Illustration from Astronomia instauratae mechanica, by Tycho Brahe (Hamburg, 1598). Original: engraving. 1598