figurine

Seated figurine; grey pottery. From Isthmus of Tehuantepec, State of Oaxaca. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish Conquest. Those made by the village farming communities of the Mexican Neolithic most often represent women, with exaggeration of the breasts and buttocks perhaps reflecting a concern with human fertility and increase. Images of the later period, especially those from the great classical city of Teotihuacan, illustrate a variety of gods and human types, reflecting the richness and diversity of an elaborate priest-temple cult

H: 102 mm W: 69 mm

America Mexico Oaxaca Isthmus.of.Tehuantepec

McPherson, John Dr

Zapotec

clay fired.clay pottery

McPherson, John Dr

48. Gregory's Reflecting Telescope. The James Gregory (1638-1675) who invented the reflecting telescope is usually regarded as the brightest star in the Gregory constellation, and the greatest mathematician in a family of mathematical geniuses. His son, James (1674-1733), was the first in the family to attain professorial rank in Medicine (King's College - 1725 till 1732), and two of his grandsons and a great-grandson also became professors of Medicine in King's College, Aberdeen.

Gregorian reflector telescope used in Aberdeen Observatory (18th cent)

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