Portrait of John Flamsteed (1646-1719) mb-artist Readers_Wives The diamond-shaped photograph is mounted

The diamond-shaped photograph is mounted on a cabinet card giving Christmas greetings

1st April 1980

Duke of Edinburgh refers to Britain's need for fit and ready sailors

and is here seen playing 'a musical instrument

Portrait of John Flamsteed (1646-1719) mb-artist Readers_Wives The diamond-shaped photograph is mountedThree quarter length painting of Flamsteed, seated on a high backed green upholstered chair, with a covered table on his left. He wears a black robe with white, squared collar. The sitter holds his right hand to his chest; the left rests on a brown leather bound volume of his own stellar observations [eventually published posthumously as Atlas Coelestis, 1729] on the tabletop. An architectural pillar is visible behind. John Flamsteed was elected a