View of the residence of Elwood, friend of John Milton, at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire mb-code SF37622 These experiments were conducted at

These experiments were conducted at Cragside in Northumberland

the atmospheric phenomenon presenting as halos and mock suns

'Le Missionaire'

View of Vauxhall Bridge with a steamboat on the Thames

View of the residence of Elwood, friend of John Milton, at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire mb-code SF37622 These experiments were conducted atView of the residence of Elwood, friend of John Milton, at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, 1840. Thomas Elwood, an early Quaker, was secretary to the poet John Milton (1608 1674). Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).