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Maker
Place of origin
Date

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

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

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Altitude quadrant

1552

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Gunter quadrant

1640

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

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

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

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

1870-1875

Series of 11 photographs (some duplicates)

1883

Glass framed photograph, time lapse sequence of the partially eclipsed Sun and corona at totality

1912

Four photographic prints in passe-partout frames of Solar Corona

1936

Brass framed repeating circle with case.

1815-1825

Refracting telescope with observatory mounting, 1884

1884

SEC vidicon camera tube - identical to one used in IUE (international ultra-violet explorer) satellite

1972

1999 eclipse viewer

1999

Omega Nebula

1876

Mahogany and brass reflecting quadrant

1748

Drawings of Mars from Lick Observatory

1892

Fake Islamic astrolabe, 1890-1930

1890-1930

English horary quadrant, 1650-1725

1650-1725

Astrolabe, c.1650

1645-1655

Hindu quadrant, 1800-1899

1800-1899

European astrolabe, 1295-1305

1295-1305

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

1849

Photograph of Drawing of Solar Chromosphere

1869

Photograph of Drawing of Solar Chromosphere

1869

Spare Mirror Segment for the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS)

2000-2003

Magnesium Hydride in Sun Spot

1911

European astrolabe, 1631

1631