Interior of the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London Collection_Coronation Perhaps it's travelling alone

Perhaps it's travelling alone

when the Portuguese made changes to the Captain's Saloon arrangement

conceived as navigational gifts for the safety of all

From about the middle of the seventeenth century

the lake transformed into a natural mirror

Interior of the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London Collection_Coronation Perhaps it's travelling aloneThree figures using astronomical equipment in the Great Star Room or the Octagon Room, as it is known today, at the Royal Observatory. To the left an observer is using a quadrant to carry out astronomical observations. While a seated figure, on the right, studies the sky through a telescope. Portraits of Charles II, whose support Sir Jonas Moore had crucially secured for the founding of an observatory at Greenwich, and James, Duke of York (later James