Orrery demonstrating the transit of Venus Product:Framed picture This was paid for from

This was paid for from the funds raised by a well supported Relief Appeal launched in England

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

View with a gravedigger sitting in the churchyard

c1894-1931

Study of a volcanic cloud with periodic falls of ash

Orrery demonstrating the transit of Venus Product:Framed picture This was paid for fromOrrery 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