'The four wheel'd orrery' vinegar Arfons survived without serious injury

Arfons survived without serious injury

The model for the painting is possibly George White

His best-known work is the two-volume A history of the Royal Society

View of the temporary Royal Exchange situated in the quadrangle of the Excise Office from 1838 to 1844 while building work was carried out

'The four wheel'd orrery' vinegar Arfons survived without serious injuryThe four wheel'd orrery' from A dissertation upon the phaenomena of the harvest Moon; also, The description and use of a new four wheel'd orrery, and an Essay upon the Moon's turning round on her own axis, by James Ferguson (London, 1747). James Ferguson (17101776) was a natural philosopher and inventor of scientific instruments. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System, based on Copernican principles. Original: engraving. 1747