Longitude Punk'd

Using as a springboard the technical inventions that were presented to the Board of Longitude between 1714 and 1828, eight British steampunk artists have created a mix of historically inspired and wackily imaginative new works for the Royal Observatory. The spirit of eighteenth-century astronomers is called up by a collection of whimsically monikered contemporary artists including Herr Döktor, Emily Ladybird and Major Thaddeus Tinker.