Tycho Brahe's Bipartite arc SB the table of the king

the table of the king and queen and other dignitaries stands on a raised dais with a red canopy bearing gold letters

Scene depicting the attempt made by Margaret Nicholson to assassinate King George III at the entrance to St James's Palace

in principle

Britannia tries to console G Ward Hunt

Interior view of the music room in Vauxhall Gardens

Tycho Brahe's Bipartite arc SB the table of the kingEngraving of Tycho Brahe's bipartite arc for measuring small angular distances of stars ('Arcus bipartitus minoribus siderum distantiis inserviens'), in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. Illustration from Astronomia instauratae mechanica, by Tycho Brahe (Hamburg, 1598). Original: engraving. 1598