The old observing-room, Greenwich mb-code NA015725 View of nos 80 -

View of nos 80 - 86 Whitechapel High Street

and have much magical meaning

about 1840

a monkey sits on the floor in the foreground

The old observing-room, Greenwich mb-code NA015725 View of nos 80 -The old observing room, Greenwich, late 17th century (1893). The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was founded in 1675 by King Charles II, with John Flamsteed appointed as the first Astronomer Royal. The building, with its octagonal observing room, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume III, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.