Greenwich part 2

Em Greenwich, ainda seguindo o caminho do Royal Observatory onde se encontra o marco zero do meridiano, passamos pelo National Maritime Museum, talvez o maior museu desse estilo na Europa, retratando 2000 anos de história marítima. Um dos pontos altos, foi ter a oportunidade de ver o maior quadro pintado por Turner  A Batalha de Trafalgar . 

In Greenwich, in our way to the Royal Observatory where we can stand on the Prime Meridian ,  we visited the National Maritime Museum considered the largest museum with this theme in Europe, spanning 2000 years of maritime history. A lot of things to see; among them, Prince Frederick's Barge (1732), Figure Heads and , most important, Turner's largest painting The Battle of Trafalgar.

Prince Frederick's Barge (1732)

Figure heads from different ships 

The Battle of Trafalgar - Turner

Caminho do Royal Observatory

Greenwich Park 

Em 1675, Rei Charles II solicitou ao arquiteto Christopher Wren que construísse o Observatório Real Royal Observatory). Ele foi nomeado Flamsteed House em 1720 em homenagem ao primeiro astrônomo real que, junto com Edmond Halley, traçou as estrelas dos céus dos Hemisférios Norte e Sul. O Observatório funcionou por mais de 300 anos. Agora, serve como um museu de astronomia.

No  Observatório Real  uma das primeiras atrações é a seção remanescente do telescópio de 12 metros construído para William Herschel, astrônomo que se tornou famoso pela sua descoberta do planeta Urano em 1781.

"In 1675 King Charles II commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build the Royal Observatory on the site of Duke Humphrey's medieval watchtower. It was named Flamsteed House in about 1720, after John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal. John Flamsteed held the post of Astronomer Royal for 42 years. In the nearly 300 years it functioned as a working observatory, there were only nine other Astronomers Royal at Greenwich.

Between them, the first two Astronomers Royal – John Flamsteed and Edmond Halley – plotted all the stars visible in the northern and southern hemispheres. At the same time, because astronomy and time are inextricably linked, the Royal Observatory was key in helping to develop accurate clocks."

Read more at https://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory/history#s0c3MMDAej8Cd8Vr.99

At the Royal Observatory, one of the first things we can see is the remaining section of a 12m telescope built for the astronomer William Herschel who became famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781.

William Herschel's telescope



Flamsteed House

Relógio  construído em 1974 pelo relojoeiro Martin Burgess, usando uma teoria radical proposta por John Harrison, que fez o primeiro relógio marítimo prático em 1775.  O grau de erro é de 1/2 segundo a cada 100 dias. 

Clockmaker Martin Burgess began to build the clock (known as Burgess Clock B) in 1974 using a radical theory proposed by John Harrison, maker of the first practical marine timekeeper around 1775. The clock's performance is of high level, varying only half a second every 100 days.

Burgess Clock B

Harrison's watch