Captain's Socks Interest_London and Greenwich A portrait of King Charles

A portrait of King Charles II (1630-1685) by Sir Peter Lely

Familiar Mercator Projection style of map with longitude and latitude lines

Author: Michael Palin

The Royal Museums Greenwich collection holds examples of alidades

This diagram was "Delineated from Observations and Calculations made by J R Hind

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