Thermometrical barometer Size:L: 80 x 60cm In the distance is the

In the distance is the steeple of St Vedast

Escapologist

Young pop stars gathered at the Albert Memorial in London for a bread and water lunch to draw attention to Oxfam's Christmas appeal

as it would have appeared from the River Thames

Thermometrical barometer Size:L: 80 x 60cm In the distance is thePlate 7 from the paper 'Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes' by Francis John Hyde Wollaston, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 183 196. The figures show the fully assembled instrument (figure 7) with details of components including the thermometer and a Vernier scale. Original: ink on paper. 1817