Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon Size:S: 60 x 45cm volume V (Paris

volume V (Paris

Illustrations of optical phenomena: seven figures (numbered 135-141) of spectral distribution and intensity in Frauhofer patterns produced by white light shone through a variety of apertures

The Earl of Rosse is standing in the telescope tube

There were a number of serious cholera epidemics in the mid-nineteenth century and

Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon Size:S: 60 x 45cm volume V (ParisBuckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon, early 20th century. Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfastleigh in Devon. Dedicated to Saint Mary, it was founded in 1018 and run by the Cistercian order from 1147 until it was destroyed under the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1882 monks began living there again, and today it is a Benedictine foundation.