Terrestrial globes with equators, poles, eliptics and quadrants Finish:Float frame The interior of Billingsgate Market

The interior of Billingsgate Market showing fishmongers and their stalls

a candidate in the election

usually for civil prisoners such as debtors

was held to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Terrestrial globes with equators, poles, eliptics and quadrants Finish:Float frame The interior of Billingsgate MarketPlate 6 figures 1 6 from the paper "Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulae for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude; the obliquity of the eliptic being given in both cases", by Abram Robertson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 138 148. Original: ink on paper.