Planetary System NEWBOOK And a prince attempts to

And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks

how offshore navigators depended on it for their lives in wild and dangerous seas until the advent of GPS – and the sextant’s vital role in the history of exploration

The hangings would have been used in lectures

Our Royal Museums Greenwich Terra Nova cap features a bold design inspired by the emblem of the 1912 British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Robert F Scott

which retales the story of a Scottish farmer who was chased by the young witch

Planetary System NEWBOOK And a prince attempts toThis coloured lithograph presents an image of the solar system, to Uranus. Surrounding the central diagram are four images: a telescope, a globe, a sundial and a book. The telescope appears with the names Galileo and Metius, referring to Galileo Galilei, one of the first to turn a telescope to the sky in 1609, and Jacob Metius, a Dutch optician, who filed a patent claim for the telescope in 1608. The terrestrial globe refers to the astronomers