Tycho Brahe's triangular astronomical sextant Product:Greetings card The facing page is a

The facing page is a corrected [in pencil] proof version of the captions

with owners including King George V

The Marsham Children

Bartholomew Fair

This cartoon was prompted by the publication of Andrew Mearns' The Bitter Cry of Outcast London

Tycho Brahe's triangular astronomical sextant Product:Greetings card The facing page is aEngraving of Tycho Brahe's triangular astronomical sextant for the determination of distances ('Sextans astronomicus trigonicus pro distantiis rimandis'), in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. Illustration from Astronomia instauratae mechanica, by Tycho Brahe (Hamburg, 1598). Original: engraving. 1598