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2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre
3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
4. Astronomy and print
Astrolabes and quadrants
Barometers
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
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Depth sounding
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Exploring the Arctic
Franklin relics
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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Baker collection
Close collection
De Gomme collection
Des Barres collection
Duckworth collection
Duff collection
Ericsson collection
Globes
Globes and globe gores
Goodsall collection
Green Blackwall collection - charts
Grenville collection
Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection
Hopton Hall collection
Lockyer collection
Loose maps and charts: general collection
Maps
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
Moriarty collection
Northey collection
Penrose collection
Pirelli collection
Popular Astronomy
Portolans and loose charts on vellum
Printed atlases
STC collection
Stokes collection
Westlake collection
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1. Astronomy for all
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4. Astronomy and print
After the War. Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports
A Matter of Life and Death
An iconic device
A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
Caricatures
China before the Opium Wars with a specific focus on Canton
Dutch ships
English shipping
English ships
Exploring the Arctic
Foreign Shores
Green Blackwall collection
Herschel family
Historical
Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
Maritime Art Greenwich
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
Miniatures
Miscellaneous
Nature and National Waters
Nicholas Pocock
Oil paintings
Opium Wars
Patronage, Battles and the Exotic
Popular Astronomy
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Sailing warships
Sketchbooks and albums
Studies of ships and vessels
Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
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The astronomical telescope
The Herschels as artists
The Herschels as collectors
The Opium Wars
The Rise of the Seascape
The telescope’s satirical side
Van de Velde drawings
What is the North-West Passage?
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2 large lenses from RGO
2-prism Astronomical Spectroscope
2-prism Laboratory Spectroscope
4-prism Astronomical Spectroscope
6" spherical mirror with 2" hole
12" mirror
13" pyrex mirror
30 inch mirror or blank
30" mirror or blank
A. Mirror
A. Telescope
Achromatic telescope
Adjusting screw
A Flamsteed House model
Aircraft sextant
Air sextant
Airy's Water Telescope
Altazimuth Eyepiece
Altazimuth instrument model
Altitude dial
Ammeter
Analemmatic dial
Anemometer
Anenometer
armament accessory: sight, telescope
Armillary and polyhedral dial
Armillary dial
Armillary equinoctial dial
Armillary equinoctial pedestal dial
Armillary planetarium
Armillary sphere
Armillary Sphere
Armillary sphere case
Armillary sphere stand
Artficial Horizon
Artficial Mercurial Horizon
Artificial Glass Horizon
Artificial glass horizon
Artificial Gyroscopic Horizon
Artificial horizon
Artificial Horizon
Artificial horizon tray
Artificial Mercurial Horizon
Artificial mercurial horizon
Artificial Pendulum Horizon
Astrolabe
Astrological compass
Astronomical compendium
Astronomical compendium dial
Astronomical instrument
astronomical t&e: altazimuth
astronomical t&e: astrolabe
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(European)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Flemish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Indo-Persian)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Maghribi)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Persian)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(western)
astronomical t&e: astronomical instrument
astronomical t&e: disc
astronomical t&e: orrery
astronomical t&e: photoheliograph
astronomical t&e: planetarium
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery(part)
astronomical t&e: planisphere
astronomical t&e: polisher
astronomical t&e: polishing machine
astronomical t&e: prism
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
astronomical t&e: telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope (20ft)
astronomical t&e: telescope (30 in)
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomic reflector)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refractor)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic spy glass
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic walking stick
astronomical t&e: telescope, gregorian: telescope, astronomical reflector(pocket astronomical reflector)
astronomical t&e: telescope, gunlayer's: telescope, achromatic ?
astronomical t&e: telescope, pocket: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope component: control, telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope component: electrical equipment
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece, micrometer
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror(Gregorian)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, elliptical plane
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, speculum metal
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mount, eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: polishing frame, mirror
A Telescope
Augsburg dial
Azimuth compass
Backstaff
Bar magnet
Bar magnets
Barometer
Binnacle and liquid compass
Binoculars
Box Sextant
Box sextant
Bubble Sextant
building: observatory
Butterfield dial
Cabinet
Calendar
Calendar medal
Cannon dial
Celestial globe
Chronograph sheet
Clockwork globe
Coelostat
Collapsible globe
Compass
compass
Compass, gyro
Compass dial
component, telescope
container: box, specimen
Control for telescope
Course indicator
Creagh-Osborne protractor
Crescent dial
Cross-staff
Cylinder dial
data processing t&e: computing instrument: indicator, station speed & distance
data processing t&e: magnetograph component: recording apparatus
Day or night telescope
Decca receiver
Diagram
Dieppe magnetic azimuth dial
Dip circle
Dipleidoscope
Dip sector
Diptych dial
Disc
Dividers
documentary artifact: diagram
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, clockwork
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
documentary artifact: globe, skeleton: globe, navigational instruction
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(collapsible)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(reproduction)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, clockwork
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, collapsible
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, pocket
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, umbrella(collapsible)
documentary artifact: lantern slide
documentary artifact: model, astrolabe
documentary artifact: model, nocturnal
documentary artifact: model, quadrant
documentary artifact: model, telescope
documentary artifact: model, transit circle telescope
documentary artifact: model, transit instrument
documentary artifact: photonegative
documentary artifact: photoprint
documentary artifact: phototransparency
documentary artifact: plaque
documentary artifact: print
documentary artifact: stereograph
documentary artifact: telescope component: plate, photographic
double sextant
Double Sounding Quintant
drafting t&e: dividers
drafting t&e: dividers, proportional
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
drafting t&e: sector, equatorial
drafting t&e: sector, Zenith
drafting t&e: station pointer
Dry card compass
Echo sounder
electrical & magnetic t&e: dip circle component
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnet
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnet, bar
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetograph component: motor
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer component: magnet
electrical & magnetic t&e: variometer
elescope
Equinoctial dial
Eyepiece
Eyepiece and mount
Eyepiece micrometer
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mounts
Eyepieces
Facsimile globe
Flea-glass telescope
Floor globe
Galilean telescope
Geomancer's compass
Geomantic compass
Global Positioning System
Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver
Gore plate
Gregorian primary mirror
Gregorian secondary mirror
Gregorian telescope
Gun-sighting telescope
Gunner's quadrant
Gun sighting telescope
Gunter's scales
Gunter scale
Gyrocompass
Gyro Compass
Gyroscopic Sextant
Hand-held telescope
Hand globe
Horary quadrant
Horary quadrant with Gunter projection
Horizon, artificial
Horizontal dial
Horizontal pedestal dial
Horizontal sun and moon pedestal dial
Hour-glass
Illuminated globe
Inclining dial
Inflatable globe
Instruction globe
Instrument for Measuring the Dip of the Horizon
Islamic globe
Islamic quadrant
Lantern slide
Lantern slides
Lead line
Lens
Level
Level, transit
Liquid compass
Liquid compass and binnacle
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
Log glass
Look-out telescope
Lookout telescope
Magnet
Magnetic azimuth dial
Magnetic dial
Magnetograph
Magnetograph recording apparatus
Magnetometer
Mariner's Astrolabe
Mariner's astrolabe
Mariner's compass
Mariner's quadrant
Mechanical equinoctial dial
Mechanical log
Mechanical log recorder
Meteorite
meteorological t&e: barometer
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)
meteorological t&e: sunshine recorder
meteorological t&e: thermometer
meteorological t&e: thermometer component: case
meteorological t&e: thermostat
Micrometer
Microscope
Miniature globe
Mirror
Mirror grinding and polishing apparatus
Model
Model astrolabe
Model of a transit instrument
Model quadrant
Model telescope
Motor
Naval telescope
Navigational globe
Newtonian primary mirror
Newtonian secondary mirror
Night telescope
Nocturnal
Nocturnal model
Non-achromatic telescope
Notebook
Octant
Octant with Artificial Horizon
Officer of the Watch telescope
optical t&e: binoculars
optical t&e: binoculars, galilean
optical t&e: binoculars, prismatic
optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope
optical t&e: lens, astronomical
optical t&e: microscope
optical t&e: spectroscope
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
optical t&e: telescope, pocket(non-achromatic)
optical t&e: telescope, spy glass(non-achromatic)
optical t&e: telescope component: lens
Orrery
Paget angle sextant
Parallel rule
Perpetual calendar
personal gear: box, tobacco
personal gear: snuff box
personal symbol: coat of arms
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
Photograph
Photographic plate
photographic t&e: plate holder, photographic
Photoheliograph
Photonegative
Photopositive
Photoprint
Phototransparency
Planetarium
Planisphere
plate, transit
plate holder, photographic
Pocket globe
Pocket sextant
Pocket telescope
Polishing frame
Polygonal telescope
Polyhedral dial
Portable telescope
Postage stamps
Presentation telescope
Print
Prism
Prismatic binoculars
Protractor
Quadrant
Quintant
quintant
Radar display unit
Radar plotter
Radio direction finder
Rangefinder
Rangefinder telescope
Recording apparatus
Reflecting Circle
Reflecting circle
Regiomontanus dial
Repeating circle
Ring dial
Scaphe dial
Sextant
sextant
Sextant Stand
Sextant with Artificial Horizon
Sextant with artificial horizon
Sight ?
Slit with glass lens?
Snuff box
SOLD Bubble Sextant
Sounding lead and line
Sounding Quintant
Sounding quintant
Spectroscope
Spyglass telescope
Spy glass telescope
Standard distance piece, variometer
Star plotter
Station, speed and course indicator
Station, speed and distance indicator
Station pointer
Station speed & distance indicator
Stereograph
String-gnomon dial
Sundial
Sunshine recorder
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, astrological
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, astrological(geomancer's)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, geomancer's
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, Geomancer's
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: line, lead
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding
surveying & navigational t&e: dip, horizon equipment
surveying & navigational t&e: instruments, scientific
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone
surveying & navigational t&e: log, estimator
surveying & navigational t&e: log, mechanical
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: plate, transit
surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, radar
surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant
surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant, horary
surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(stadiometer)
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, double
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, gyro
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, paget angle
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: quintant
surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sundial & compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, testing(for viewing device)
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, reversible
surveying & navigational t&e: traverse board
Surveyor's Sextant
Table globe
Telescope
telescope
Telescope draw tube
Telescope eyepiece
Telescope lens
Telescope part
Telescope stand
Telescope tube
Tellurium
Terrestrial globe
Testing telescope
Thermometer
Thermometer case
Thermometers
Thermostat
timekeeping t&e: calendar
timekeeping t&e: calendar, perpetual
timekeeping t&e: chronograph
timekeeping t&e: chronograph component: chronograph sheet
timekeeping t&e: dial
timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)
timekeeping t&e: dial(mechanical)
timekeeping t&e: dial(spherical)
timekeeping t&e: dial, astronomical compendium
timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, horizontal
timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: time gun
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, analemmatic
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, astronomical ring
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, crescent
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych(diptych)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, inclining
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic azimuth
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, mechanical equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, pillar
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, polyhedral
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, ring
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, scaphe
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, vertical
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dipleidoscope
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(15 minute)
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(30 minute)
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(60 minute)
timekeeping t&e: nocturlabe
timekeeping t&e: nocturnal
Tobacco box
Traverse board
Universal equinoctial armillary dial
Universal equinoctial dial
Universal equinoctial ring dial
Universal equinoctial scaphe dial
Variometer
Vertical disc dial
visual communication t&e: code, signal
Walking stick telescope
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport: training vessel (HMS)
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acrylic
alloy
alloy, glass, Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
alloy?
aluminium
aluminium?
amber
anodised brass
anodized brass
asbestos
baize
Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
bakelite/Tufnol
balleen
beech
bell metal
black ivory
black metal, glass
black paint
blued-steel
bone
box
box: wood covered with black shark skin and lined with magenta silk
boxwood
brass
Brass
brass & glass
brass, enamel
brass, glass
brass, glass, ?silver plate
brass, glass, card, iron
brass, glass, leather, silver
brass, grenadilla wood,
brass, leather
brass, silver, paper, glass
brass, wood
brass, wood, paper, ivory
brass gilt
brass with silver-plate
brick
bronze
bronze dust
bronze gilt
calfskin
canvas
card
cardboard
card laminate
cast iron
cast silver
cast silver alloy
celluloid
cellulose nitrate
cellulose nitrate lacquer
cloth
colour lithography
colour wash
compressed card
compressed cardboard
compressed printed cardboard
copper
copper-engraved
copper-plate engraved
copper alloy
copper or brass
copper plate
copper plated with brass
copper plate engraved
copus wood
cord
cotton
ebony
electrical wiring
electric wire
Electric wiring
electrified
electroformed
electronics
elephant ivory (CITES)
embossed paper
enamel
enamelled brass
enamel paint
engraved
engraving
fabric
facsimile
felt
fish skin
galvanised steel
gilded-leather
gilt
gilt-brass
gilt-copper
gilt brass
gilt copper
gilt copper alloy
gilt metal
gilt paint, water
glass
glass & metal, brass frame, wooden holder
glass & metal, wooden box, paper label
glass, leather, mercury, velvet, brass
glass, metal
Glass, metal, leather(?), wood lens cap, wooden box
glass, paper
glass, silver, wooden box
glass, wooden box
glass.
gold
hand-coloured
hand-coloured lithography
hand-painted
hardwood
horn
ink
inorganic: glass
inorganic: plastic, glass
inscribed
iron
iron alloy
ivory
ivory (CITES)
ivory (CITES), lignum vitae
japanned paperboard
Key ivory (CITES)
labernum
lacquer
lacquered boxwood
laminated card
laquer
lead
lead (?)
leather
leather (case)
leather, brass, glass
light wood
lignum vitae
limestone
lime wood
linen
liquid
liquid in level
lodestone
magnet
Magnetic ore
magnetite
magnetite, silver
mahogany
Mahogany (CITES)
mahogany handle, lignum vitae
mahogany veneer
manuscript
marble
mercury
metal
Metal
metal: alloy
metal: alloy, aluminium
metal: aluminium
metal: brass
metal: brass, anodised
metal: brass, wood, papier mache
metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
metal: bronze
metal: bronze ?
metal: cast iron
metal: chrome
metal: copper
metal: gold
metal: gunmetal with brass fittings
metal: iron
metal: lodestone
metal: magnetite rock
metal: silver
metal: silver:
metal: silver ?
metal: speculum
metal: steel
metal: tin
metal: wire, tungsten
metal alloy
mica
mount: wood
nickel
nickel-silver
nickel alloy
nylon thread ?
oak
oiled cloth
oil paint
organic: bone
organic: card
organic: cardboard
organic: ivory
organic: leather
organic: paper
organic: paper, tissue
organic: silk
organic: wood: boxwood
organic: wood: lignum vitae
oxidised brass
padouk wood
paint
painted
painted canvas
pape
paper
papier
papier mache
papier mâché
parchment
pasteboard
pearls
pearwood
perforated
perspex
pewter
pewter-brass alloy
pigskin
pine
pine wood
plaster
plastic
Plastic
plastic, aluminium, rubber
plastic;
plastic?
platinum
porcelain
portland stone
possibly eggshell
printed cardboard
printed colour lithography
printed cotton
printed lithography
printed paper
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probably hair
punched
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rayskin (shagreen)
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