Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)

2008 (prototype)

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Altitude quadrant

1552

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Gunter quadrant

1640

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Digital Optical Module (DOM) from the IceCube neutrino detector

2007-2008

Two sheets of photographs of the sun taken with a Dallmeyer photo-heliograph

1870-1875

Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas Wright's "construction" of the Great Comet of 1744

Watch fob of cornelian engraved with Edmond Halley and his comet

Hammond's Improved Planisphere

1890-1910

Astronomical clock with planisphere face designed by Franz Heinrich Klodt

1880-1899

Islamic horary quadrant

Lunar globe

1987

Celestial globe

1987

Artificial horizon of black glass

1830-1860

Photograph film positive

1919

Small Newtonian telescope, on stand (not original)

Gregorian reflecting telescope of 6 inch aperture and 30 inch focal length by Thomas Morton

1817-1862

Johnston's celestial globe

1890-1920

Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/2 inch aperture and 17 inch focal length

1740-1780

European horary quadrant, 1650-1725

1650-1725

Orrery planetary model by the Trippensee Planetarium Company, 1968-9

1968-1969

Mystery brass spectroscope or similar device with two prisms and auxilary mirror

1890-1920

Comet pin

1830-1870

Calender ring from orrery planetary model

1850-1900

Model of Narivalaya at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Italian armillary sphere, 1648

1648

Model astrometer

1900-1914

German armillary sphere, 1542

1542