Gemini, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:L: 80 x 60cm especially as it represented the

especially as it represented the 'darling Benjamin of the old times

bearing rolls of cloth

The plate is headed 'SHEERS IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD' and is inscribed below 'H

View of the entrance to Dean's Court

Gemini, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:L: 80 x 60cm especially as it represented theThe constellation Gemini (the twins), with Canis Minor. Map 3 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729