EditorialPhilosophe tracant des figures géométriques avec un compas - A philosopher drawing geometrical figures with a pair of compasses. Around 1660. Canvas, 128cm x 102cm. M.I. 894.
EditorialMiniature divided into eight arcades showing scenes from Genesis: in the top four God divides the earth with compasses; makes the sun with a hammer; bends down to put a large fish in the sea as various beasts look on; and draws Eve from the rib of slee...
EditorialMiniature containing Creation scene, with God, holding a pair of compasses, creating heaven and earth, with a decorated initial 'A' beginning the text of Genesis 1, below, and full foliate and ivy leaf borders. Bible Historiale, vol. 1. France (Paris);...
Editorial(Whole folio) Miniature containing Creation scene, with God, holding a pair of compasses, creating heaven and earth, with a decorated initial 'A' beginning the text of Genesis 1, below, and full foliate and ivy leaf borders. Bible Historiale, vol. 1. F...
Editorial(Whole folio) Landscape with clerks studying astronomy and geometry, showing an armillary sphere, square, compasses, etc. La Vraye Histoire du Bon Roy Alixandre (The Alexander Romance in Old French prose). France; early 15th century. Source: Royal 20 B...
EditorialGod the Creator with his architect's compasses in a ring, surrounded by heaven and angels above and hell-fire below. Holkham Bible Picture Book. c 1327-1335. Source: Add. 47682, f.2. Language: English Anglo Norman.
EditorialA Pope enthroned; a King of France enthroned; the Duc de Berry receiving the book from Laurent de Premierfait; a group of labourers with compasses, flail, axe and spade. Jehan Boccace des cas des nobles homes et femmes. Middle of 15th century. Source: ...
EditorialThe Barronny of Iveragh', co. Kerry (Munster), by an unidentified surveyor; [1655-1656?]. North west at top. Scale: 320 perches to the inch [1:63360]. Showing boundaries of parishes (in colour) and townlands, with place-names. Rivers and areas of bog a...
EditorialPoem and sketch by William Blake. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Sketch of God with compasses 'Creation begun', relating to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. Autograph draft of Blake's poem 'Lines written on hearing the surr...
Editorial(Miniature) Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, mathematician and inventor of a mechanical clock. He is shown seated at his desk measuring with a pair of compasses. History of the abbots of St Albans. 14th century. Source: Cotton Claudius E. I...
EditorialMale Nude Holding a Mirror [recto]. Dated: c. 1500. Dimensions: overall: 26.7 x 14.1 cm (10 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink on laid paper; the paper has been pricked in several places with the points of a pair of compasses and indented lig...
EditorialMale Nude Holding a Mirror [recto]. Dated: c. 1500. Dimensions: overall: 26.7 x 14.1 cm (10 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink on laid paper; the paper has been pricked in several places with the points of a pair of compasses and indented lig...
EditorialPhilosophe tracant des figures géométriques avec un compas - A philosopher drawing geometrical figures with a pair of compasses. Around 1660. Canvas, 128cm x 102cm. M.I. 894.
EditorialElias Allen, 1666, Etching, only state, Sheet: 9 7/16 ? 6 7/16 in. (23.9 ? 16.4 cm), Prints, After Hendrik van der Borcht II (Dutch, Frankenthal 1614? ca. 1690 Antwerp), Portrait of Elias Allen, half-length to right, looking towards left, seated at a t...
Editorial[X-Ray of a Box Compasses], 1896, Gelatin silver print, Image: 17.2 x 11.9 cm (6 3/4 x 4 11/16 in.), Photographs, Dr. Henri van Heurck (Belgian, 1838?1909).
EditorialPlans and views of magnetic compasses, including one nautical compass set on a gyroscope. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longma...
EditorialPlans and views of magnetic compasses, including the dipping needle built by Dr. John Lorimer (1732?1795), surgeon, mathematician, politician and cartographer. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclo...
EditorialPlans and views of a variety of magnetic compasses. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1808.
EditorialRichard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, mathematician and inventor of a mechanical clock. He is shown seated at his desk measuring with a pair of compasses. From the History of the abbots of St Albans. 14th century. Shelfmark: Cotton Claudius ...
EditorialThe wooden top of a hairbrush lifts up to reveal a small, hidden compass. Such compasses were used by Allied airmen, Allied agents and members of the resistance to find their bearings in enemy territory. World War II.