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Royal Observatory Greenwich Drawings and Paintings : Plan of the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1788 and elevation drawing

Royal Observatory Greenwich Drawings and Paintings

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Plan and elevation drawing showing the Royal Observatory in 1788 and Bradley's 'New Observatory'.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'> The plan represents the Observatory from about 1750 until 1808 when the Circle Room was built onto the end of the Transit Room. It was copied from General Roy's report of the trigonometric survey carried out in 1787 to measure the relative situation of the Greenwich and Paris observatories. </p><p style='text-align: justify;'> The lower elevation drawing was copied by Miss E. [Elizabeth] Smith from Johann Bernoulli's 'Lettres Astronomiques' (Berlin, 1771). Bernoulli was Frederick the Great's Royal Astronomer. The book described his visit to England in 1769 and the original drawing is the only known picture of Bradley's 'New Observatory'. James Bradley was the third Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.</p>

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