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Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

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)

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

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

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Altitude quadrant

1552

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Drawing of Grand Orrery by Thomas Wright and engraving of 'The Grand Orrery' by John Rowley

1715-1728

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883

One of eleven photographs

1883

One of eleven photographs

1883

Engraving of "The Grand Orrery by Rowley"

1715-1728

An instrument for obtaining the correction of lunar distances from the Sun

1850-1858

Sundial making tool

1620-1635

Large Eruptive Prominence On The Sun

1916-05

Glass positive:- Large eruptive prominence

1916; 1929

Sample radio receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell sub-millimetre radio telescope, 1986

1986

Educational planispheric disc giving information about the planets

1992

Spherometer

1950-1975

Atls circular slide rule by Gilson Slide Rule Company

Pocket planetarium, 1935-1939

1935-1939

Rude's star identifier A-N type 1 date c. 1942

1942

Star finder and identifier no. 2102-D by Weems and Plath

1985-1987

3.5" computer discs containing

1993

Charge-coupled device chip by RCA

1975-1984

Star finder and identifier

1958

Universal quadrant for trigonometrical calculations

1700-1710

Two magic lantern slides showing total solar eclipse

1860-1868

Grazing incidence spectrometer GIS

1993-1995