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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Popular Astronomy

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Fine art

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4. Astronomy and print

A Sea of Symbols

Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)

Caricatures

Foreign Shores

Green Blackwall collection

Herschel family

Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)

Maritime Art Greenwich

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Miniatures

Nature and National Waters

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Patronage, Battles and the Exotic

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sketchbooks and albums

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

The Rise of the Seascape

Van de Velde drawings

Timekeeping

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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks

Chronometers, precision watches and timekeepers

Domestic clocks and watches

Other horological instruments

Type

advertising medium: symbol, trade

astronomical t&e: telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

Azimuth compass

Backstaff

Backstaff with artificial horizon

Barometer

Beaker

Bowl

Bullet

Chart

Chronometer

chronometer, marine

chronometer, pocket

Chronometer frame

Chronometer movement

Chronometer plate

clothing outerwear: naval uniform: lieutenant

coat

Compass

Cross-staff

Cross Staff

Cutaway model

Diagram

Dip circle

Dividers

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: model, escapement

documentary artifact: model, telescope

drafting t&e: dividers

Drawing

Dress

Escapement model

Floor globe

Full hull model

Full hull model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Cutaway model; Plank-on-frame

Georgian, Full hull model

Gunter rule

Insulated compass

Insulating compass

jacket

Jacket

Log glass

Log reel

MAP-SHEET

Marine chronometer

Mariner's compass

Marine timekeeper

Mechanical log

medal

Meridional compass

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)

Model telescope

Naval telescope

Octant

One day marine timekeeper

one day marine timekeeper.

Painting

Plank-on-frame

Pocket Chronometer

Pocket chronometer

Rigged model

Rigged modelFull hull model

Sails set

Sextant

Short interval timer

surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, meridional

surveying & navigational t&e: cross staff

surveying & navigational t&e: glass, log

surveying & navigational t&e: log, estimator(log reel only)

surveying & navigational t&e: log, mechanical

surveying & navigational t&e: octant

surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument

surveying & navigational t&e: terrella

Telescope

Terrella

timekeeper: chronometer(K3)

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H1)

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H2)

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H3)

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H4)

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K2)

Trade sign

Trade symbol

trousers/leggings

watch

Watch 'K2'

water transport: exploration/research vessel: discovery vessel

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: gunvessel (HMS)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled: sails set)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)

water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked: rigged)

water transport: muscle-powered vessel: oar, 6

water transport: sailing vessel: barque

water transport: sailing vessel: schooner

water transport: service vessel: launch

water transport: unknown function: ship (UK)

Materials

baize

beech

black ink

boxwood

brass

Brass

brass, grenadilla wood,

bronze

card

chalk

Coconut

copper

copper (?)

copper-engraved

Copper alloy, iron

cotton

diamond

elephant ivory (CITES)

Elm, Beech

enamel

engraving

glass

gold

gold (case)

hand-coloured

Horn

ink

iron

ivory

ivory (CITES)

ivory (CITES), lignum vitae

Key ivory (CITES)

lace

lead

lead paint

leather

lignum vitae

linen

liquid

mahogany

mahogany handle, lignum vitae

mercury

metal

metal: brass

metal: brass, anodised

metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)

metal: bronze

metal: enamel

metal: silver

metal: silver:

metal: silver ?

metal: steel

mica

oak

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

organic: ivory

organic: wood: boxwood

organic: wood: lignum vitae

paint

paper

Paper

papier mache

pastel

pen and brown ink

plaster

rope

ruby

silk

silver

specula

steel

varnish

wood

wood: ebony

wood: mahogany

wool

Display Location

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Antiques of Science & Technology

Apollodoro, Francesco

Arnold, John Roger

Arnold, Thomas

Bayley, I.

Bird, John

Bishop, Robert

Blaeu, Willem Jansz

Bligh, William

Brockbank & Atkins

Cheevers, J

Cook, James

Coombe, W.

Coombes

Dance, Nathaniel

Dandridge, Bartholomew

Dollond & Aitchison

Eade, Jonathan

Earle, Augustus

Earnshaw, Thomas

Eggert & Son

Elton, John

English School, 17th century

Farquhar

Frodsham, Charles

Garner, Will

Gilbert & Sons

Halley, Edmond

Harrison, John

Hinde, John

Hodges, William

Howells & Pennington

Jennings and Company

John Arnold & Son

Kendall, Larcum

King, Thomas

Lightley, Robert A.

Massey, Edward

Mount & Page

Nairne & Blunt

Nairne, Edward

Parnell, William

Preston, Joseph

Ramsden, Jesse

Robusti, Domenico

Russell, John

Rust & Eyres

Shee, Martin Archer

Short, James

Sisson, Jonathan

Slade, Benjamin

Spencer Browning & Rust

Stebbing, Joseph

Sully, Henry

Tuttell, Thomas

Unknown

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Walker, Ralph

Whitbread, G.

Places

Amsterdam

Barrow-upon-Humber

Cape Town

England

Jamaica

London

New York

Southampton

Unknown

Versailles

Wapping

Events

Egypt War: Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882

Great Storm, 1703

Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789

Transit of Venus, 1769

Vessels

Adventure (purchased 1771)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Centurion (1732)

Condor (1876)

Endeavour (1764)

Resolution (purchased 1771)

Stirling Castle 1679

Sunbeam (1874)

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Ministry of Defence Art Collection

North-West Passage

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80

Time and Longitude

Turmoil and Tranquillity

People

Arthur Capell

Banbury, John

Banks, Joseph

Beresford, Charles William de la Poer

Blackwood, Capt

Bligh, William

Capell, Bladen

Commissioners of Longitude

Cook, James

Davies, John

Duckworth, John Thomas

Earnshaw, Thomas

Ebbage, E. L.

English School, 17th century

Galilei, Galileo

Gardener, Vivien (Jnr. D

Gardener, Vivien (Snr)

Hadley, John

Harrison, John

HM Admiralty

Hudson, Henry

King George II

Knatchbull, Edward

Lettforn, Dr

Magellan, Ferdinand

Maskelyne, Nevil

Ministry of Defence Art Collection

Mitchell, W.

Molony, Edward

Monks, P. A.

Mudge, Thomas

Nelson, Horatio

Nuyts, Peter

Ommaney, John

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal United Service Institution

Russell, Edward

Salter, Jocelyn S.C.

Stock, A R A

Vries, Gerrit de

Warr family

Witt, Gerrit Frederiksz de

Century

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

unknown

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841 (Marine chronometer)

Transit instrument (Telescope)

Transit instrument (Telescope)

A new and correct sea chart of the whole world shewing the variations of the compass as they were found in the year M.D.CC. Mount & Page; Edmond Halley. G201:1/1A

A new and correct sea chart of the whole world shewing the variations of the compass as they were found in the year M.D.CC. (Chart)

Sextant

H2 (Marine timekeeper)

Marine barometer (Barometer)

Sextant

36 (Pocket chronometer)

Marine Chronometer - Arnold No. 23 c1790. Overhead Straight On

23 (Marine chronometer)

Sextant (Sextant)

512 (Marine chronometer)

Short interval timer

Captain James Cook, 1728-79 (Painting)

Life in the Ocean Representing the Usual Occupations of the Young Officers in the Steerage of a British Frigate at Sea

Life on the ocean, representing the usual occupations of the young officers in the steerage of a British frigate at sea (Painting)

Log reel

Experimental marine timekeeper (Marine chronometer)

HMS 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' with Fishing Craft in Matavi Bay

'[A] view of Maitavie Bay, [in the island of] Otaheite [Tahiti]' (Painting)

H1 (Marine timekeeper)

Centurion (1732); Warship; 60 guns (Full hull model; Rigged model)

Terrestrial floor globe (Floor globe)

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 (Painting)

John Hadley, 1682-1744 (Painting)

Plain horn beaker (Beaker)

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