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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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
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The Herschels as experimenters
The Herschels as instrument makers
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Michael Graham-Stewart collection
Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840
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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
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Nicholas Pocock
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Opium Wars
Patronage, Battles and the Exotic
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armament t&e, artillery: gun
armament t&e, firearm: blunderbuss
armament t&e, firearm: musketoon
armament t&e, firearm: rifle
Astronomical compendium
Atlas oversize
Backstaff
Backstaff horizon vane
Backstaff shadow vane
Backstaff sight vane
Backstaff vane
baseboard
Blunderbuss
Boatswain's call
Chart
Chest
Coat of arms
Compass bowl
Compass bowl lid
Compass card
Compass card bowl
Counter
Crew member
Dividers
documentary artifact: coin, commemorative engraved
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
drafting t&e: dividers
Flask
food service t&e: flask, pewter
Frame model
Full hull model
full hull model
Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model
Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Stand
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Frame model; Rigged model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Baseboard
Full hull model; Rigged model
Full hull model; Rigged model; Plank-on-frame
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Plank-on-frame
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Gun
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Launch
furniture: chest
Gun
Hanger
Horizon vane? for backstaff
Horizon vane for backstaff
Hour-glass
Islamic globe
Launch
MAP-BOUND
Mariner's astrolabe
Mariner's quadrant
Medal
medical & psychological t&e: mortar
Mortar
Musketoon
Navy Board, Full hull model
Navy Board, Skeleton model
Nimcha
Non-achromatic telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
Painting
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Shadow vane? for backstaff
Shadow vane for backstaff
Ship Model
Sighte vane for backstaff
Sight vane for backstaff
sound communication t&e: boatswain's call
Stand
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
Sword
Table globe
Telescope
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(60 minute ship's glass)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 48-50 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 90 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: galleon
water transport: fighting vessel: warship (Spanish)
water transport: model, design: skeleton model(decked: rigged)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(rigged: decked: equipped)
water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked: rigged)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 4 masted
Wheellock Rifle
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block, plank on
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bronze
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cotton
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etching
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fruitwood
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horn
ink
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ivory (CITES), lignum vitae
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Adams, Robert
Anthonisz, Aert
Bassett-Lowke Ltd
Boazio, Giovanni Battista
Bol, Ferdinand
Borcht, Hendrick van der
British School, 17th century
Browne, J
Bry, Johann Theodor de
Buttall, J.
Bylaer, Gerard van
Calderinus, D.
Cole, Humfrey
Colom, Jacob Aertsz
D'Angelo, Jacopo
Dahl, Michael
English School
English School, 16th century
English School, 17th century
Eszler, Jacobus
Garner, Will
Garnish, John
Gottfried
Jordan
Kneller, Godfrey
Lees, James
Lely, Peter
Mercator, Michael
Mustafa
Passe, Simon van de
Peter, Basil Grenville
Poggini, D.
Ptolemy, Claudius
Robert Spence
Ryther, Augustine
Schellinks, Willem
School, Netherlandish
Seller, John
Spence, Robert
Storck, Abraham
Trici, I.
Tuttell, Thomas
Ubelin, Georgius
Unknown
Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz
Wride, Philip
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Amsterdam
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probably Spain
Stoke Fleming
Turkey
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Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588
Attack on Spanish fleet at Cadiz, 1596
Exploration: Drake's First Voyage, 1577-1580
Italian Wars: Battle of the Solent, 1545
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
Wreck of HMS Association, 1707
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Blonde (1819)
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Dido (1836)
Dragon active 1676
Kingfisher 1675
Mary Rose (1509)
Naseby (1655)
Prince Royal (1610)
Royal Prince 1610
San Juan de Sicilia
Sovereign of the Seas 1637
Vanguard (1835)
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Anderson, Roger Charles
Beg, Haj Mahmud
Blount, Charles
Blount, Mountjoy
Cavendish, Thomas
Columbus, Christopher
Cottenell, Howard H.
Digsby
Drake, Francis
Hawkins, John
Henry VIII
Hopsonn, Thomas
Hudson, Henry
Hunsdon, Lord
King Philip II of Spain
King William III
King William IV
Medrana, Diego de
Mustafa
National Maritime Museum
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Pepys, Samuel
Peter, Gill
Pett, Peter
Prince Maurice of Orange
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary, Consort of King George V
Royal Navy
Ruyter, Michel Adriaenszoon de
Sixtus V, Pope
Spanish Force
Spinney, J. David
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Mortar with metal fragment (Pestle)
Counter commemorating Queen Elizabeth I (Counter)
A Navigator with Globe and Dividers (Painting)
Warship (1675); 90 guns (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model)
Ships Trading in the East (Painting)
Portrait of an East India Company Captain, circa 1690 (Painting)
IIII of Clubs. The Spaniards lying at Anchor nere Calis and ye English Admirall rideing with in a Shott of Great Ordnance, the English Navy consisting at this time of 140 ships (Print)
King of Diamonds. The Army appointed to guard the Queenes person & consisting of 24000 Foot, and 2000 Horse, where of the Lord Hunsdon was Generall (Print)
Pewter flask (Flask)
IX of Diamonds. The 4 Gallies of Portugall under the Comand of Don Diego de Medrana wth 220 Souldiers, 212 Mariners, 200 Slaves, 100 Canons (Print)
An English Ship in Action with Barbary Corsairs, circa 1680 (Painting)
Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 (Painting)
Warship (1588); Galleon; Spanish (Full hull model; Rigged model; Plank-on-frame)
Warship (1685); 40 guns (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model)
Warship; Fourth rate; 50 guns (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model)
Musketoon
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Gun
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Gun
Boatswain's call
Dutch Ships in the Medway, June 1667 (Painting)
Hour-glass
Medal commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588 (Medal)
Backstaff horizon vane
Backstaff sight vane
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