Optics Plate VIII Frame:Natural stands La Valette

stands La Valette

Little Redfish Lake was named after the vast numbers of salmon which appeared to turn the lake a red colour

Masoud Ghadiri

The landscape is so interesting and luckily it aligns with the Milky Way core during a few months of the year

showing the sun

Optics Plate VIII Frame:Natural stands La ValetteA hand coloured engraving of optical instruments including telescopes and a camera obscura, engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis in 1820 as part of its treatment of optics. George Biddel Airy, Astronomer Royal, recalled that he owed much of his early education in optics and the other sciences to the Encyclopedia Londinensis. He described it in his Autobiography as "a work which without being high in any respect is one of the most generally useful