Microscopic view of silk and taffeta Product:Fine art poster In front of her is

In front of her is the reference to the forthcoming General Election of 1880

Henry Fawcett

Arms and armour from the Tower of London

Head and shoulders portrait in clerical dress

Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) American mathematician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818

Microscopic view of silk and taffeta Product:Fine art poster In front of her isIllustrations showing microscopic views of: fine waled silk, or taffeta (Fig. 1); watered silk (Fig. 2); the bending of individual silk threads (Figs. 3 and 4). Schem. III from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665