Eclipses and The Theory of Tides Frame:No frame A painting showing the Thames

A painting showing the Thames shoreline at Greenwich

An action between an English two-decker and a Barbary two-decker

fifth Astronomer Royal at Greenwich (1765 -1811)

By National Maritime Museum (Author)

An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch

Eclipses and The Theory of Tides Frame:No frame A painting showing the ThamesOne of a set of twelve hand tinted astronomical prints with an explanatory card. The publisher is identified on each print as J. Reynolds or James Reynolds of the Strand, London. This card also has the names Ackermann & Co., Reeves & Sons, Rocks & Co. and Peacock & Mansfield, which suggests that this was a later edition. These cards were first issued by Reynolds in 1846, although he and other publishers continued to produce them throughout the second