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Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Gunter quadrant

1640

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

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

2008 (prototype)

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Altitude quadrant

1552

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

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

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Islamic astrolabe, 1145-1155

1145-1155

Fifteen Photographs of Nasmyth's Lunar Crater Models

1850-1871

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Hindu astrolabe

1870

European astrolabe, 1495-1505

1495-1505

Digital Optical Module (DOM) from the IceCube neutrino detector

2007-2008

Scale model of Tycho Brahe's triquetrum

1973

Islamic Astrolabe

1666-1667

Sir Patrick Moore's monocle

unknown

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Orrery planetary model by Benjamin Martin, 1738-1777

1738-1777

Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil.

1919

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

1883

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

1870-1875

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, 1320-1330

1320-1330

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

1849

Fake Islamic astrolabe, 1890-1930

1890-1930

Pocket planetarium, 1935-1939

1935-1939

Rude's star identifier A-N type 1 date c. 1942

1942

Star finder and identifier no. 2102-D by Weems and Plath

1985-1987