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Posted: 29 Jun 2013

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globe on the Tower of the Winds

globe on the Tower of the Winds
Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
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Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory

The figures of the Eight Winds appeared on the original Tower of the Winds in Athens and were used by the sculptor John Bacon (1740-99) as the basis for his designs for the flying figures round the top of the stonework of the Observatory. Bacon also designed the two statues (in cast iron) of Atlas and Hercules who support the globe on the roof.

Hercules and Atlas>
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