Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation
1988
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"
1898-1900
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
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)
Italian celestial globe, 1636
1636
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
Digital Optical Module (DOM) from the IceCube neutrino detector
2007-2008
Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724
1685-1724
Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array
1967
Nebula in Cygnus
1910-07
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Photographic print of Herschel's Forty-Foot Telescope, 1890
1890
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
Islamic horary quadrant, Persian, 1701-1800
1701-1800
Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691
1686-1691
Airship R101 over Southern England
1929-1930
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
Islamic astrolabe, 1645-1655
1645-1655
Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819
1819
Islamic astrolabe, 1601-1699
1600-1699
European celestial globe
1878
Colour print showing three sketches of craters on the Moon
1872
Copernican armillary sphere from set of two armillary spheres and a celestial globe constructed in paper on pasteboard
1807-1846
Aluminium coated mylar solar filter
1998-1999
Silvered and platinized glass (Foucault)
1857-1868
Small wooden case for silvered and platinized glass
Sir Patrick Moore's Russian Lunar Globe
1967