National Galleries of Scotland Commons

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The National Gallery and Royal Institution (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh William Donaldson Clark, about 1858

When were these photos taken?

2008

2017

<1% of these photos are geotagged.

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These photos have had lots of views, comments, and favourites.

The last upload was July 2018.

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos::

BobMeade said:
Looks like this instrument is based upon Lord Kelvin's work and patents. At the Persistent URL the National Galleries of Scotland has this note : "He was also the partner of a Glasgow firm that made measuring instruments from his own patents" And here is some of his published work on such instruments: zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/terrestrial_magnetism_and_the_... .
Fumbling Kitty said:
hero
jamica1 said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
tel b1 said:
is he not a landlord of apublic house
jamica1 said:
Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.

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Peter said:
Works well using the "cross-eyed" method.
Necessary Lunch said:
Oh wow. Fantastic.

It's inside out 3D for cross-eye. You need to view it with the parallel eye method. There is a website that will convert this to cross-eye format and anaglyph for red-cyan 3D glasses.
amen.emhat said:
Wow missed the guy until i got the 3d cross eyed
JTM SNINE said:
decent.. i love the lines
Graphic Surgery said:
wow!!

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art_traveller said:
I'm really enjoying the historic photographs that the National Galleries of Scotland has added to Flickr: The Commons! Great selection! Thanks!
Stephen Buchan said:
The perspective of this view is odd - it looks as though the road descends towards the west.
Over the Top of NY said:
What a wonderful series of photos. It looks quite unchanged, and is one of the loveliest walks, from Holyrood to the Castle. :) Wish I were there now!
inquisitive hope said:
Yes, I do wish I was here also. I have a lovely memory of this though.
swimmor said:
These are just simply amazing.