mical lantern slides as it passed the horizon, while another illustrate his confident combination of ‘The heavens declare the came into view from the opposite deep faith and zeal for teaching his glory of God; and the direction, with first the sails, then the students the latest in scientific knowledge. whole ship, entering the line of sight. The slides have been digitised. The full firmament sheweth his The slides cover subjects including the set may be seen in the Archives Space handywork’ –Psalm 19:1 sun, moon and planets, the comets, the on the College’s Spaces portal. evolution of models of the solar system (there are slides showing the Ptolemaic, Pythagorean, Tychonic and Newtonian systems), solar and lunar eclipses, the tides, the seasons and the Zodiac. There is also a fourth moveable slide that does not appear to be part of the set, being a kaleidoscope pattern. One of its two discs is broken into three pieces, but it is fortunately the only slide that is damaged. Our collection also contains a “Patent Refulgent Lamp for Magic Lanterns”. We have no evidence to indicate whether it belonged to Moulton, but it or a similar device would have been used to project the slides. Most of Moulton’s annotations in the booklet are scientific. For example, on Comet of 1811 the description of the asteroids (the booklet notes 10 had been identified by 1851), he writes there are ‘now over 100’. This was a period of rapid advances in a wide range of scientific knowledge, sometimes challenging beliefs based on traditional interpretations of the Bible. The two Old Testament quotations Moulton wrote on the last page of the booklet, however, Newtonian System VALETE Since the last edition of NEWS we have been advised of the passing of the following Old Boys and Staff Mitchell Baker (ON 1977), Bob Baxt AO (ON 1955), Ralph Bennett (ON 1970), Adrian Bitel (Staff 1985-2008), Brian Bown (ON 1948), Terence Butler (ON 1957), Gordon Clarke (ON 1946),Barry Crowther (ON 1949), Kevin Divola (ON 1945), Ian Downs (ON 1958), Aubrey Eardley (ON 1955), Laurie Gluskie (ON 1951), Rodney Grace (ON 1978), Andrew Gray (ON 1974), John Hannan (ON 1955), Lewis Hathway (ON 1945), Brian Henry (ON 1952), William Johnson (ON 1987), Fangufangumana Jnr (Mana) Latu (ON 2000), Keith Maher (ON 1978), Kevin Muddell (ON 1944), Des Reynolds (ON 1952), Ronald Slack (ON 1953), Stuart Slatyer (ON 1956), Sidney Smith (ON 1946), Michael Taubman (ON 1984), Keith Thurgood (ON 1946), David Twiby (ON 1956),Christopher von Keisenberg (ON 1963), Charles Williams (ON 1998), Mervyn Wilson (ON 1958) OPPORTUNITY| NEWS AUTUMN 2018| 57