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