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

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

2008 (prototype)

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1640

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Altitude quadrant

1552

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Large map of the Moon (approx. 80cm) by Wilhelm Lohrmann

1880-1883

Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819

1819

Moon globe

c.1963

Film positive (9 7/8" x 7 3/4") nebula N.G.C. 5866

1923

Film positive (9 7/8" x 7 3/4") Nebula N.G.C. 4594

1923

Brass framed octant with case.

1794-1801

Positive on glass

1890

Drawing of suspension for Foucault's pendulum (1) Foucault's method (2) Science Museum

1917

Refracting telescope on portable altazimuth mounting, with tripod and accessories

1822

Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/2 inch aperture, with stand, tripod and case

1808-1850

Universal ring dial with mariners altitude dial

1720-1737

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

1747

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

1870-1875

Drawing of Grand Orrery by Thomas Wright and engraving of 'The Grand Orrery' by John Rowley

1715-1728

Series of 11 photographs (some duplicates)

1883

Set of four photographs in window mounts showing an enlarged portions of the Sun's visible disc

1872-1884

Fifteen Photographs of Nasmyth's Lunar Crater Models

1850-1871

Diapositives of photographs taken with the Kew Photoheliograph

1860-1862

Piece of Green Granite Erbetta

Piece of Polished Green Granite Erbetta

box of glass negatives by Sir William Huggins

box of glass negatives by Sir William Huggins

Coloured astronomical lantern slide

One of two old lenses, in lead mount