Southern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code JS51794569 A knife and scissors grinder

A knife and scissors grinder at work

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Everton footballer Dixie Dean talking with a cyclist in Liverpool

' Plate 1 from the book Psyche: figures of non descript lepidopterous insects

Southern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code JS51794569 A knife and scissors grinderThe stars of the southern hemisphere. Map 26 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729