Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:S: 40 x 40cm 3rd January 1962

3rd January 1962

The Red Lion Inn on Uxbridge Road

with two tables detailing Hackney coach fares and watermen's fares

rubs his hands in anticipation of increased profits

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:S: 40 x 40cm 3rd January 1962Monoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 5 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south east, the stage of the first gallery slightly raised. The instrument's scale is