Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) Webber the treadmill was installed the

the treadmill was installed the following year

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A scene from Shakespeare's Twelth Night

Plate 49 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) Webber the treadmill was installed theEdmond Halley as a relatively young man, apparently in his thirties. The sitter is shown at half length with long, dark naturally styled hair and has blue eyes. He is dressed in a loose brown robe with wide sleeves over a white shirt worn open at the neck. In his left hand he holds a sheet of paper upon which is drawn a diagram of an elliptical orbit. Edmond Halley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678. Original: oil on canvas, 765x639mm.