Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

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

2008 (prototype)

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Gunter quadrant

1640

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Altitude quadrant

1552

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

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

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

Two sheets of photographs of the sun taken with a Dallmeyer photo-heliograph

1870-1875

Series of 11 photographs (some duplicates)

1883

Glass framed photograph, time lapse sequence of the partially eclipsed Sun and corona at totality

1912

Four photographic prints in passe-partout frames of Solar Corona

1936

Set of four photographs in window mounts showing an enlarged portions of the Sun's visible disc

1872-1884

Fifteen Photographs of Nasmyth's Lunar Crater Models

1850-1871

Glass positive:- Halley's Comet

1910

Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot

1872

Positive on glass

1890

White enamel glass mirror and box, by William Herschel

1780-1800

Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas Wright's "construction" of the Great Comet of 1744

Apparatus for showing distortion in the photoheliograph

1858-1876

Watch fob of cornelian engraved with Edmond Halley and his comet

Mechanical model to illustrate the precession of the equinoxes by Henri Robert

1867

Hammond's Improved Planisphere

1890-1910

Astronomical clock with planisphere face designed by Franz Heinrich Klodt

1880-1899

Gyroscope by Henri Robert

1857-1862

Astronomical demonstrator of retrograde planetary motion

1860-1880

Lunar globe

1987

Artificial horizon of black glass

1830-1860

Photograph film positive

1919

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

1968-1969