Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation
1988
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"
1898-1900
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
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)
2008 (prototype)
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Altitude quadrant
1552
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
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
Italian celestial globe, 1636
1636
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Digital Optical Module (DOM) from the IceCube neutrino detector
2007-2008
Ptolemaic armillary sphere
1501-1600
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot
1872
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Solar Corona 1875 April 6
1875
Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724
1685-1724
Orrery planetary model
1789-1795
Chinese celestial globe, 1830
1830
Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box
1883
Philips' Planisphere
1910-1915
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1816
Mars globe
1997
Orrery planetary model by Space Educational Aids Limited, 1967-9
1967-1969
Telescope Eyepiece from Great Rosse Telescope, 1845-1850
1845-1850
model of equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra)
1884-1886
models of Celestial hemispheres (Kapali)
1884-1886
Glass positive:- Jupiter
1915
Great star cloud near Messier 11
1895
Glass positive:- Saturn
1909-1921
Transparency:- constellation of Orion
1910
Film positive (7 3/4" x 9 7/8") Nebula N.G.C. 4565
1923
Region of star cluster Messier 11.
1905
Film positive (7 3/4" x 9 7/8") Nebula N.G.C. 5194/5.M51
1923