Compass Collection (page 3)

Portland Bill to Portsmouth: The pursuit of the Spanish Armada by the English Fleet, c1588. Artist: Augustine Ryther
Portland Bill to Portsmouth: The pursuit of the Spanish Armada by the English Fleet, c1588. After Robert Adams. From The Connoisseur Volume XCI, edited by F. Gordon Roe

The first pivoted needle compass, c1269 (1956). From Epistola de Magnete the first treatise on magnets, written by French scholar Pierre de Maricourt (Petrus Peregrinus)

A German man of letters, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
A German man of letters, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 16th century wood engraving. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

The Lottery, 1721. Artist: William Hogarth
The Lottery, 1721. A theatre stage upon which the allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a production. This was Hogarths way of criticising the government for raising money by lottery

Artificers, 15th century, (1910). A group of workmen with their tools from the time of Edward IV (1461-1483). Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London)

Lord Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist and engineer, (c1924). Kelvin (1824-1907) was a leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century

Philosopher with a book, a compass and goniometer, 1630. Artist: Ribera, Jose, de (1591-1652)
Philosopher with a book, a compass and goniometer, 1630. Found in the collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Portrait of a Musician, c. 1565. Artist: Campi, Bernardino (1522-1591)
Portrait of a Musician, c. 1565. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

The Geographer, 1668-1669. Artist: Vermeer, Jan (Johannes) (1632-1675)
The Geographer, 1668-1669. Found in the collection of the Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Archimedes, 18th century. Artist: Giuseppe Nogari
Archimedes, 18th century. Archimedes (c287-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician and inventor who discovered formulae for calculating areas and volumes of planes and solid figures

Front page of Architectura Curiosa Nova, 1664. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
Front page of Architectura Curiosa Nova, 1664. Elaborate designs for Baroque fountains in public squares and private country gardens in the French, German

Use of the magnetic compass in map making, 1643. Diagram of the use of the compass by cartographers and surveyors. Bor (Borealis) is north and Aust (Australis) is south

Magnetism, c1850. Educational plate showing various aspects of magnetism and electromagnetism including a dip needle, compass, the lifting power of an electromagnet (12), Wheatstone telegraph (13)

Euclid, Ancient Greek mathematician, demonstrating to his students, 1806. Artist: James Basire II
Euclid, Ancient Greek mathematician, demonstrating to his students, 1806. Euclids (fl300 BC) main achievements in mathematics were in the field of geometry. Frontispiece of Euclids Opus Elementorum

Kepler and Brahe at work together (c1600), c1870. German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), left, with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1564-1601)

Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Behaviour of a magnetic compass, 1643. If a compass in a box is carried round a globe-shaped magnet (N, centre of picture) with magnetic poles where lines cross (left and right of N)

Mensura, from Prosopographia, ca. 1585-90. ca. 1585-90. Creator: Philip Galle
Mensura, from Prosopographia, ca. 1585-90

Lord Kelvin and his compass, 1902. Artist: James Craig Annan
Lord Kelvin and his compass, 1902. Kelvin was born William Thomson and was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge. He was professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics)

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