Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm 'Isaacus Newton Eq

'Isaacus Newton Eq

behind which is the Monument

A street seller carries a large box full of small objects

and holding a shepherd's crook

Rudolf Caracciola

Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm 'Isaacus Newton EqStudies of 'Astrochites' (or 'Starred Stone'); 'Silver Spar'; 'Foliated Talk' (talc); 'Mundick Spar'; a 'Talk Crystal' (talc); a 'Half Crystal'; and 'Starred Waxen Vain' ('Given by Sir Rob. Moray. Found in the Isle of Sheapy'). Table 21 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: