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Old College and War Memorial, Edinburgh

The Talbot Rice Gallery (see posts here and here) is housed in part of the Old College, Edinburgh.

On the way out I happened upon a War Memorial to the former alumni of Old College, set into the wall behind its entrance facade

Old College:-

Old College, Edinburgh

From side. War Memorial wreaths behind:-

Old College, Edinburgh From Side

I could not get the whole of the memorial into one photo. Nor indeed two. Both of those below are stitches of two.

War Memorial Wall 1914-1918 names. Dedicated “MCMXIV To the glorious memory of the alumni of this University who fell in the Great War MCMXIX.”:-

Old College, Edinburgh War Memorial 1914-1918 Wall

World War 2 names. Stones to side inscribed 1939 and 1945:-

Old College, Edinburgh World War 2 Memorial

Circles, Talbot Rice Gallery

Several of the exhibits at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, when we visited in February featured circles of different sorts, mostly of natural origin, but some not:-

Circles 1, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Thios one has a depiction of Copernicus’s heliocentric solar system in the book at the centre:-

Circles 2, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

This was on the wall. It looks like the trace of an eccentically orbiting comet or something of that kind:-

Polished Stone 1, Talbot Rice Gallery

Liesegang Rings. I confess I had only heard of Liesegang Rings in a chemical context before this but I now know they occur geologically too, as evidenced below:-

Liesegang Rings, Talbot Rice Gallery

Over Land and Sea

In February my eldest son and his wife (along with our grandaughter) took us to the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, which I don’t recall visiting before.

I was taken by this by Angelica Mesiti which contrasts a natural piece of marble with a sea atlas from 1675:-

Over Land and Sea

Over Land and Sea 2

Over Land and Sea Information

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