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Posted: 29 Jun 2013

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Gemini the twins

Gemini the twins
zodiac signs at the Radcliffe Observatory
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 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
Tower of the Winds, Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford:

Below the level of the balcony are the Signs of the Zodiac modelled for the Coade factory by J C F Rossi, who took his designs from the Farnese Globe, a celestial globe (now in the Museo Nationale, Naples) which has survived from Roman times and is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek original. A map of an 'Ancient Globe of the Heavens' taken from the Farnese Globe had been published in Spence's Polymetis in 1747, and it was this map that Rossi used as a model for the Observatory's Zodiac signs. The number of Zodiac panels is not twelve but eleven – the signs for Scorpio (the scorpion) and Libra (the scales) are combined both on the Farnese Globe and on the Observatory.

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory
10 years ago. Edited 15 months ago.
 Studley
Studley
A thoughtful wind has blown across a flimsy piece of cloth
Our bodies are a little bland and wouldn't scare a moth;
But at nightfall the wind doth change and naked we can dance
So pop along around midnight if you get the chance.
10 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Studley
No dancing naked in the breeze,
Or your credentials they will seize.
Security men are here all night,
Watching the Radcliffe building site.
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
Gemini the Twins
15 months ago.

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