Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation
1988
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes
1648-1687
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)
2008 (prototype)
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
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
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
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Altitude quadrant
1552
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Ebony and brass octant.
1777-1810
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Orrery planetary model
1851-1856
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil.
1919
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1816
Digital Optical Module (DOM) from the IceCube neutrino detector
2007-2008
Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array
1967
Islamic astrolabe, 1145-1155
1145-1155
Islamic Astrolabe
901-1100 CE
Islamic Astrolabe
1666-1667
Sir Patrick Moore's “Precious” blue box containing various badges and pens
Enlarged photographs of the planet Mars
1909
Dutch celestial globe, 1625
1625
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
Islamic astrolabe, 1849
1849
Colour print of the visible surface of the Sun
1872
One of four photographs showing an enlarged portions of the Sun's visible disc
1878
Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819
1819
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
Small wooden case for silvered and platinized glass
Silvered and platinized glass (Foucault)
1857-1868