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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

Charts and maps

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De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Goodsall collection

Green Blackwall collection - charts

Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection

Hopton Hall collection

Lockyer collection

Loose maps and charts: general collection

Moriarty collection

Northey collection

Penrose collection

Pirelli collection

Portolans and loose charts on vellum

Printed atlases

STC collection

Stokes collection

Westlake collection

Type

Artificial horizon

Artificial Mercurial Horizon

astronomical t&e: cosmosphere

astronomical t&e: planisphere

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

Azimuth compass

Barograph

Barometer

Capt. George's Artificial mercurial horizon

Case

Celestial navigational globe

Celestial navigational globe altitude circle

Celestial navigational globe box

Celestial navigational globe instructions

Celestial navigational globe meridian/altitude circle

Celestial navigational pointer

Chart

Chart rule

Circular protractor

Cosmosphere

data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: protractor, messum

data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: protractor, sextant(combined sextant & protractor)

Disc

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

Double Box Sextant

Double box sextant box

Double box sextant box strap

double quintant

Double Sounding Quintant

Double sounding quintant adjusting pin

Double sounding quintant box

Double sounding quintant telescope

drafting t&e: drawing instruments

drafting t&e: protractor, circular

drafting t&e: protractor, circular surveyor's(rotating arm)

drafting t&e: rangefinder

drafting t&e: station pointer

drawing instruments

Dry compass

Equinoctial dial

Floor globe

MAP-SHEET

Maximum/minimum thermometer

Messum protractor

Metal framework

meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid(height indicator)

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

Miniature globe

Naval telescope

Navigational globe

Navigational globe box

Night telescope

Octant

Octant box

Officer of the Watch telescope

optical t&e: telescope

optical t&e: telescope, night glass: telescope, inverting(non-achromatic)

Pencil

personal gear: goggles, snow

Planisphere

Pocket globe

Pocket Quintant

Pointer

pointer, station

protractor, circular surveyor's

Quintant

Quintant (Double)

quintant, pocket

Rangefinder

Rangefinder telescope

Sextant

Sextant adjusting pin

Sextant box

Sextant eyepiece

Sextant eyepiece tube

Sextant miscellaneous part

Sextant Protractor

Sextant shaded eyepiece

Sextant Stand

Sextant telescope

Snow goggles

Snow goggles case

Station pointer

Station pointer box

surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying(combined surveying compass, level and inclinometer)

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying: compass, azimuth

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer, maximum/minimum(black metal case)

surveying & navigational t&e: octant

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

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(enlarged form of box sextant)

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope(officer of the watch)

Surveying compass

Telescope

Theodolite eyepiece

Theodolite plumb bob

Theodolite telescope tub

Theodolite telescope tube

Thermometer

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial

Tommy bar

visual communication t&e: code, signal

water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)

water transport: passenger vessel: steamer

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: schooner

Materials

alloy

aquatint & etching

black lacquered brass, with electrum(?) scale

bone or ivory

boxwood

brass

Brass

bronze

cardboard

copper

copper plate engraved

cotton

enamel

engraving

etching

felt/velvet

glass

hand-coloured

horn

ink

inorganic: glass

inorganic: mica

ivory

lead

leather

leather ?

liquid in level

magnet

mahogany

mercury

metal

metal: brass

metal: brass, anodised

metal: silver

metal: steel

mica

organic: ivory

organic: tortoiseshell

paper

papier mache

plaster

plastic

printed paper

rope

shark skin

silver

silvered brass

steel

synthetic: ivorine

textile

varnish

velvet

wood

wood: ebony

wood: mahogany [box]

Display Location

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

Alexander, Daniel

Browne, Arthur

Cary

Cary & Co.

Cary, F

Cary, J.

Cary, John

Cary, William

Cary and Porter

Cary Porter Ltd

Cetti, C

Davis, William

Debrett, John

Fielding, I

Fielding, John

George, Christopher

Gosnell, Samuel

James MacGowan & William Davis

John & William Cary

Macgowan, James

Muller, William

Negretti & Zambra

Sewell, John

Stebbing, George

Unknown

Williams

Wyatt, S.

Places

England

London

Strand

Unknown

Events

Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916

Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876

Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur, 1692

Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hougue, 1692

Seven Years' War: Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759

Vessels

Alert (1856)

Assistance (1835)

Great Eastern (1858)

Lady of St Kilda fl.1837

Exhibition

North-West Passage

Voyagers

People

Acland, Thomas Dyke

Biscoe, John

Butler, Thomas

Captain George

Captain Richard Pickersgill

Cockburn, George

Confederate Fleet

Cook, James

Dutch Fleet

English Fleet

Esdaile, Frank Samuel Drake

French Fleet

Jean-Francois de La Perouse

Lockyer, Hughes Campbell

Macklin, Alexander Hepburne

Moriarty, Henry Augustus

Nelson, Horatio

Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Phipps, G. J.

Ross, James Clark

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Stokes, John Lort

Vancouver, George

Watts, Philip

Century

18th

19th

20th

unknown

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Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe instructions)

Double sounding quintant adjusting pin

Sextant eyepiece tube

Station pointer box

Sextant telescope

Sextant shaded eyepiece

Double box sextant box

Sextant shaded eyepiece

Octant box

Snow goggles case

Chart rule

Cary Porter Azimuth Instrument (Station pointer)

Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe)

Station pointer

Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe)

Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe box)

Snow goggles

Azimuth compass

Equinoctial dial

Sextant

Aneroid barometer (Barometer)

Artificial Mercurial Horizon - Group Shot

Capt. George's Artificial Horizon (Artificial Mercurial Horizon)

Maximum/minimum thermometer

A plan of the cities of London, Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the new buildings to the year 1786. Published Feby 1786 by I Fielding No 23 Paternoster Row London. (Chart)

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