A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke].

  • Cooke, John, 1738-1823.
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ton*. In Mr. FlamstedY hand is a large scroll u or paper, on which is drawn the great eclipse of the Sun that happened in April, ] 715; near him is an old man with a pendulum, counting the seconds Of time, as Mr. Flamsted makes his observations, with his great mural arch and tube, on the descent of the moon on the Severn, which at certain times forms such a roll of the tides, as the sailors corruptly call the Hygre, instead of the Eagre, and is very dangerous t6 all ships in its way. This is also ex- ■ pressed by rivers tumbling down',' by the moon's in- fluencc, into the Severn. In this gallery are more arts and sciences relating to Navigation. All the great rivers, at each end of the Hall, have their proper product of fish issuing out of their vases. 8 In the four angles of the ceiling, which are over « the arches of the galleries, are the four element;-, as Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, represented by Jupiter, Juno, Gibele, and Neptune, with their lesser deities accompanying; as Vulcan, Iris, the Fauni, Amphitrite, with all their proper atti- * tudes, Sec. * He was the first Masler of the Charity Boys.