Pisces sign
Lips the south-west wind
Zephyros the west wind
Atlas and Hercules
globe on the Tower of the Winds
the south winds
south side of the tower
observatory tower
sunlight on the world
open view of the observatory
observatory in the winter sun
Coade stone panel
Coade stone panel
Sagittarius the Archer
Libra & Scorpio
Virgo sign
Leo sign
Cancer sign
Gemini sign
Taurus sign
Aries sign
Pisces the fish
Aquarius the water-bearer
Taurus the bull
Taurus shadow
Gemini the twins
Cancer the crab
Leo the lion
Virgo the virgin
Libra the scales & Scorpio the scorpion
Notos the south wind
Euros the east wind
Hercules, Euros and Apeliotes
Apeliotes the south-east wind
Sagittarius sign
Kaikias the north-east wind
Hercules and Atlas
Radcliffe Observatory tower
aerial view of Radcliffe Observatory (1 of 5)
aerial view of Radcliffe Observatory (2 of 5)
aerial view of Radcliffe Observatory (3 of 5)
aerial view of Radcliffe Observatory (4 of 5)
aerial view of Radcliffe Observatory (5 of 5)
aerial view of Freud (1 of 5)
aerial view of Freud (2 of 5)
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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
The curious form of Capricornus, the goat with a fish-tail, derives from the myth in which the god Pan jumped into the water just as he was changing shape in an attempt to escape from the monster Typhon. While the half of him above the water assumed the shape of a goat, the lower half became a fish.
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