“It was still the Crystal of the Sea, at oh five fifty three,

What ever happened to the parallax again?

And the transits of Venus?

Whose trigonometry were we to see

On the evidence paper verily

“We do it for fun

“For free in the Sun

“And it will always be

“About Royal Society

“For failing to be

“In line with reality

“Made wrong by just being

“All along