Comet of 1742 orders Princess Street

Princess Street

aka Loulou outside his first London Rive Gauche store on New Bond Street

County Hall is under construction on the South Bank in the background

adjoining the Queen's Head Tavern

September 18

Comet of 1742 orders Princess StreetDiagram showing the geocentric motion of a comet [now designated C 1742 C1] using observations made 24 February 7 March 1742. The figure is headed 'A graphical construction of the comet's geocentric motion, determining its mean perigaeum' [perigee] Figure appended to a letter, Thomas Wright, St. James's, 7 April 1742, to the Honourable Mr. Yorke. Signed lower right 'Thos. Wright'. Thomas Wright was proposed as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1735,