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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