Comet of 1742 Size:S: 30 x 25cm Garlick Hill

Garlick Hill

January 1980

In the lower margin is a detail of a first floor ceiling and a facsimile of Sir Paul Pindar's handwriting

6th Febrary 1963

The plate is inscribed: 'Krakatoa

Comet of 1742 Size:S: 30 x 25cm Garlick HillDiagram showing the geocentric motion of a comet [now designated C 1742 C1] using observations made 24 February 7 March 1742. The figure is headed 'A graphical construction of the comet's geocentric motion, determining its mean perigaeum' [perigee] Figure appended to a letter, Thomas Wright, St. James's, 7 April 1742, to the Honourable Mr. Yorke. Signed lower right 'Thos. Wright'. Thomas Wright was proposed as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1735,