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Tiberius Cavallo
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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...
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Nicholas Culpeper
Physician, botanist, herbalist, astrologer and writer. Probably born at Ockley, Surrey. In about 1635 left Cambridge and came to London. This was prompted by the death of his intended. On her way t...
1 memorial
David Kirkaldy
Born near Dundee. In 1857 Kirkaldy helped form the Institution of Engineers in Scotland and was the first person to set up a load testing machine for construction materials powerful enough to deal ...
2 memorials
William Lilly
Master astrologer. Born Leicestershire. Allegedly predicted the Great Fire of London 14 years before it happened. He was accused of having started the fire and was tried but, there being no evid...
1 memorial
René Descartes
Philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Netherlands.
1 memorial
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an artist who travelled to Italy, Switzerland ,France and England where in 1811 he gained admittance...
1 memorial
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