Terrestrial globes with equators, poles, eliptics and quadrants Finish:Float frame Joseph Paxton's building for the

Joseph Paxton's building for the Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations in London

was held to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Marie-Anne Lavoisier has been omitted from this portrait

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Terrestrial globes with equators, poles, eliptics and quadrants Finish:Float frame Joseph Paxton's building for thePlate 6 figures 1 6 from the paper "Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulae for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude; the obliquity of the eliptic being given in both cases", by Abram Robertson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 138 148. Original: ink on paper.