Terrestrial globes with equators, poles, eliptics and quadrants mb-code LMG142833 The 1880 General Election had

The 1880 General Election had now taken place and Disraeli's Conservative Party had now become the official Opposition Party as Gladstone and the Liberals swept into power

The circular tool is shown suspended on gimbals from a pulley

Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart (military uniform) James Ellis as Peter Warmsley (Pork pie hat)

To prove Him of the true Duncean Line

also including ships

Terrestrial globes with equators, poles, eliptics and quadrants mb-code LMG142833 The 1880 General Election hadPlate 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.