Glass beaker from brass quadrant
Base (foot) from brass quadrant
Base (foot) from brass quadrant
Islamic Astrolabe
1666-1667
Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"
1898-1900
Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)
2008 (prototype)
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1825
Brass weight from brass quadrant
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Hand held solar viewer
1750-1799
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes
1648-1687
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
1999 eclipse viewer
1999
Model (scale 1:200) of the Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope
1957 (original); 1961 (model)
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond of 18-inch radius with optical sights on a tripod
1780-1820
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
Altitude quadrant
1552
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Reflecting telescope by William Herschel
1783-1785
Ebony and brass octant.
1777-1810
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Objective lens by John Reeves
1657-1689
Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture
1829
Moon globe by John Russell, England, 1797
1797
Gunter quadrant
1640
Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight
1829
Twelve-inch quadrant by John Bird
1760-1769
Sextant by Jesse Ramsden
circa 1772
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Islamic astrolabe, 1601-1699
1600-1699
Nebula in Cygnus
1910-07
Halley's Comet; H Knox-Shaw
1910
Halley's Comet; E E Barnard
1910-05-04
Compendium tablet sun-dial
1566
Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (24 hour exposure)
1909
Galileo holding a pendulum
circa 1864
Comet 1914 V (Delvian)
1914-09
horary quadrant, 1650-1725
1650-1725
Double-beam recording microdensitometer
1967-1975
Comet 1914 V (Delvian)
1914-09