Winstanley's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks t 19th July 1976

19th July 1976

Figure 12 Steganura underwoodi

Plate 1 in the section 'Seiche (Sepia)' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles

which is decorated with flags

Details of the dog are given in the Royal Society's Journal Book [JBO/10] at a meeting of 29 May 1700: 'A person shew'd a monstrous puppy

Winstanley's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks t 19th July 1976Depiction of the south elevation of the first lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth. The lighthouse was built in 1696 99 by the English engineer Henry Winstanley (1644 1703), and was destroyed in the Great Storm of 27 November 1703, which killed Winstanley and five other men. This lighthouse was subsequently replaced by a design by John Rudyard. Roberts's 1762 engraving is based on an earlier orthographic drawing from a perspective