Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation

Astronomy

1988

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

Astronomy

1610; 1923

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

Astronomy

1607-1618

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

1666-1667

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

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

Astronomy

2008 (prototype)

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Astronomy

1603

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Astronomy

1599

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Ebony and brass octant.

Astronomy

1777-1810

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1650-1725

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Altitude quadrant

Astronomy

1552

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1640

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

Astronomy

1554

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Ptolemaic armillary sphere

Astronomy

1501-1600

Tenmon Bun’ya no zu (map showing divisions of the heavens and regions they govern)

Astronomy

1677

Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond of 18-inch radius with optical sights on a tripod

Astronomy

1780-1820

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1650-1725

Objective lens by John Reeves

Astronomy

1657-1689

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

Astronomy

1898-1900

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

Astronomy

1648-1687

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

901-1100 CE

French armillary astrolabe, 1661

Astronomy

1661

Model (scale 1:200) of the Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope

Astronomy

1957 (original); 1961 (model)

Brass weight from brass quadrant

Astronomy

Base (foot) from brass quadrant

Astronomy

Brass refracting telescope of 4 1/2 inch aperture

Astronomy

1855-1865

Glass beaker from brass quadrant

Astronomy

Base (foot) from brass quadrant

Astronomy

Base (foot) from brass quadrant

Astronomy

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1789-1795

Solar eyepiece (Herschel wedge) with two dark glas

Astronomy

1860-1880

Incomplete mechanical orrery

Astronomy

Copernican armillary sphere

Astronomy

1807-1846

MONOPOLY®: Astronomy Edition

Astronomy

2001

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

Astronomy

1883