seven scenes and he had to the english crown waited impatiently for the return of its heroes. even though greenwich now lives in the shadow of the high rise blocks of canary wharf the name of his london suburb is still familiar to sail as the world over the prime meridian which divides the earth into an eastern and the western half runs through greenwich. in sixteen seventy five so christopher ran the architect to design supposed to feed will build an observatory on a hill in the south part of the park bench. the building was commissioned by king charles the first in order that the tables showing the movements of the celestial bodies and the positions of the fixed stars might be corrected with the greatest possible care and accuracy the aim being to determine lines of longer tutsi and thus to perfect the art of navigation.