Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Edward Sabine NPG D39978

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Herbert Maguire, printed by M & N Hanhart

Served in the Royal Artillery and appointed astronomer to the Arctic expeditions of Sir John Ross (1818) and Sir William Parry (1819) in search of the Northwest Passage. In 1821, he began experiments in Africa, North America and the Arctic to determine the Earth's shape more precisely by observing the motion of a pendulum. He published the first results in 1825 and then oversaw the establishment of magnetic observatories throughout the world. In 1852, he discovered that the variation of sunspots correlates with... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.