Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon Size:S: 60 x 45cm Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

Illustrations of optical phenomena: seven figures (numbered 135-141) of spectral distribution and intensity in Frauhofer patterns produced by white light shone through a variety of apertures

Fire and Sword

Smithfield

Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon Size:S: 60 x 45cm Galileo GalileiBuckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon, early 20th century. Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfastleigh in Devon. Dedicated to Saint Mary, it was founded in 1018 and run by the Cistercian order from 1147 until it was destroyed under the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1882 monks began living there again, and today it is a Benedictine foundation.