Coade stone panel
Coade stone panel
Sagittarius the Archer
Libra & Scorpio
Virgo sign
Leo sign
Cancer sign
Gemini sign
Taurus sign
Aries sign
Pisces the fish
Aquarius the water-bearer
Capricorn the Goat
the east wind
the south wind
the south-west wind
the west wind
the north-west wind
the north wind
the north-east wind
the south-east wind
Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
gallery in the observation room
open view of the observatory
sunlight on the world
observatory tower
south side of the tower
the south winds
globe on the Tower of the Winds
Atlas and Hercules
Zephyros the west wind
Lips the south-west wind
Pisces sign
Aries the Ram
Taurus the bull
Taurus shadow
Gemini the twins
Cancer the crab
Leo the lion
Virgo the virgin
Libra the scales & Scorpio the scorpion
Notos the south wind
Euros the east wind
Hercules, Euros and Apeliotes
Apeliotes the south-east wind
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The purchaser of the Observatory was Lord Nuffield, who presented it to the hospital authorities and in 1936 established the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research there. In 1979 the Institute moved to new premises in the grounds of the John Radcliffe Hospital, thus freeing the Observatory site for its new owner, Green College.
The Observatory was built at the suggestion of Dr Thomas Hornsby, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, after he had used a room in the nearby Radcliffe Infirmary to observe the transit of Venus across the sun's disc in 1769. The transit was a notable event which helped to produce greatly improved measurements for nautical navigation.
Beneath the Tower itself are rooms at each of three levels: the ground floor is now the College dining room, the first floor, originally the library, is now used as the Common Room, and on the top floor is the magnificent octagonal observing room.
Now bereft of its instruments, the room nevertheless still contains some of the original furniture as well as a spiral staircase which leads to an upper gallery. From this gallery the Observer had access to the roof where meteorological observations were carried out. Large windows lead from the observing room onto the balcony, making it possible to wheel observing instruments outdoors.
www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory
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