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Explore the tools people have used to understand the heavens. These objects form a world-class record of astronomical instrument-making, observation and demonstrations from the 10th century to the present day.

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Copernican armillary sphere

Astronomy

1807-1846

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

Astronomy

1830

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1789-1795

Aluminium spectroscopic plate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

Astronomy

1998-2002

Incomplete mechanical orrery

Astronomy

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1775-1799

Plaster cast from the chapel ceiling in the Great Temple at Dendera

Astronomy

50 BCE

Orrery planetary model by the Trippensee Planetarium Company, 1968-9

Astronomy

1968-1969

French Clock with orrery planetary model and winding keys

Astronomy

1830-1832

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Orrery planetary model by James Ferguson, 1755-1756

Astronomy

1755-1756

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

Astronomy

1919

Six-foot speculum [metal] mirror on travelling carriage from the Great Rosse Telescope, the 'Leviathan of Parsonstown', built by the Third Earl of Rosse at Birr, Ireland, 1844-46.

Mirror for the Great Rosse Telescope, 1844-1846

Astronomy

1844-1846

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

Astronomy

1747

Nasmyth reflecting telescope on turntable stand, 1850-1852

Astronomy

1850-1852

Mechanical lantern slide of the Solar System

Astronomy

1838

Uncoloured and uncut printed paper gores for the 'New Celestial Globe'

Astronomy

1851-1900

Artificial mercury horizon with case.

Astronomy

1895-1900

Twelve inch terrestrial globe by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1800-1825

Lunar crater model

Astronomy

1850-1871

Photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), taken by Isaac Roberts using a twin telescope (20-inch reflector & 7-inch refractor) by Howard Grubb of Dublin. Taken with an exposure of 4 hours on 29th December 1888 at his observatory & home at Maghull, near Liverpool.

Photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy

Astronomy

1888

Belgium Mars globe, 1892

Astronomy

1892

Map of Europe marked with the paths of totality for solar eclipses during the 20th century

Astronomy

1927

Orrery patented 1897 (No.578,108 USA) and 1910 (No.958,139 USA) by Alexander Laing and manufactured by Laing Planetarium Company, Detroit, Michigan.

Orrery planetary model by the Laing Planetarium Company, 1910-1920

Astronomy

1910-1920

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

Astronomy

1829

A lithograph depicting a solar eclipse, taken from a photograph, 1869

Astronomy

1869

Working Model of Radio Dish from One Mile Telescope,Cambridge

Astronomy

1964

Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array

Astronomy

1967

Model of Stonehenge

Astronomy

1873

Lane's Pocket Terrestrial and Celestial Globe, 181

Astronomy

1811

Reeve's astronomical compass

Astronomy

1916

Solar Corona 1893 April 16, Brazil, glass transpar

Astronomy

1893

Compendium tablet sun-dial, brass gilt, with three

Astronomy

1566

Mars globe

Astronomy

1896-1899

Folding telescope designed by Horace Dall

Astronomy

1960-1975

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

Astronomy

1066; 1876

Orrery planetary model by Thomas Wright, 1718-1747

Astronomy

1718-1747

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Dutch celestial globe, 1625

Astronomy

1625

Armillary sphere

Astronomy

1601-1700

Islamic astrolabe, 1701-1800

Astronomy

1701-1800

Twin reflecting and refracting telescopes on observatory mounting, 1885

Astronomy

1885

Gregorian reflecting telescope, 1734-1772

Astronomy

1734-1750

Transit of Venus model by Bahram Momeny, 2004

Astronomy

2004

Norman Lockyer’s seven-prism spectroscope

Astronomy

1868

Clay Hall in old Windsor, Berkshire

Astronomy

1950-1958

Scale model showing the orbit of Halley's Comet, 1910-1915

Astronomy

1910-1915

Ramsden's astronomical equatorial instrument, with 2-1/4 inch aperture and 18-inch focal length

Astronomy

1770-1780

Mars Globe, 8 1/2-inch in diameter by Replogle Glo

Astronomy

1981-1982

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

Astronomy

1686-1691

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