Sujet

Flamsteed House in Greenwich Park, London, late 17th century. Artist: Unknown

Légende

Flamsteed House in Greenwich Park, London, late 17th century. Flamsteed House was designed by Christopher Wren on the orders of Charles II as a royal observatory. At this time the problem of finding longitude at sea was unsolved and the observatory was built in the expectation that it would be possible to produce tables to enable mariners to plot their position. The first nation to solve the problem would have naval and mercantile advantage. John Flamsteed, after whom the building is named, was the first Astronomer Royal.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1675

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images

Notre référence

HRM19B64_450

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,0Mo (2,4Mo) / 45,6cm x 16,5cm / 5380 x 1949 (300dpi)

Mots clés

parc bâtiment bâtiments Londres architecture pays la science astronomie Britannique Anglais observatoire endroit siècle La Grande-Bretagne longitude B&W MONOCHROME 17e siècle Greenwich noir et blanc noir et blanc B W Observatoire Royal Oxford Science Archive engraving Unknown John Sir Christopher Wren Wren Christopher Sir Christopher Christopher Wren King of Great Britain and Ireland John Flamsteed Flamsteed King Charles II Charles II engraving