View in the cloisters, showing the entrance to Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, London mysticism Seven figures of shapes used

Seven figures of shapes used in experiments described by the author as being 'on different solids moving through the water in the direction of their shortest axis

This was the year also of Jack the Ripper and the failure of the police to find the guilty man led to them being less than flattering coverage in the newspapers of the day

Pedestrians in straw hats cross the relatively traffic-free street

a German astronomer known by the name 'Regiomontanus'

View in the cloisters, showing the entrance to Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, London mysticism Seven figures of shapes usedView in the cloisters, showing the entrance to the Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, London, 1809.