Harlequin and Colombine Size:XL: 100 x 100cm Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679) mathematician

Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679) mathematician and patron of astronomy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1674

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in his work Town Swamps and Social Bridges had described how a man living by the Thames had been able to tell the time by the constant reappearance with the sluggish tide of a swollen

Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact - by Wiliam Bayley

it had become clear that China was not going to honour its promise of commercial concessions to France and Britain

Harlequin and Colombine Size:XL: 100 x 100cm Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679) mathematician