Telescope speculum for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Jan Griffier the Elder Wednesday 17th February 1987

Wednesday 17th February 1987

and Disraeli has returned from the boroughs

Figure 8 Anthea cereus

Reg Parnell drove the car to victory in the 1951 International Trophy race at Silverstone

he advent of the railways had made Sunday excursions popular amongst the skilled working class

Telescope speculum for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Jan Griffier the Elder Wednesday 17th February 1987Plate 24 figure 2 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. A view of the speculum on supporting levers supported on a cast iron rail carriage. The carriage is shown on a turntable situated to the north side of the Parsonstown 72 inch