Orrery demonstrating the transit of Venus Product:Framed picture View with a gravedigger sitting

View with a gravedigger sitting in the churchyard

Sir John Charles Bucknill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1866

Figure 3 Torpedo timlei [modern taxonomy Narcine timlei

Study of a volcanic cloud with periodic falls of ash

Orrery demonstrating the transit of Venus Product:Framed picture View with a gravedigger sittingOrrery demonstrating the transit of Venus. An orrery is a mechanical device demonstrating the relative positions and motions of planets and moons in the solar system. This example was made for the Royal Society to show the transit of Venus across the sun as seen from the Earth. When the handle is turned, Venus rotates around the Sun. 1761