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Sergio Díaz Ruiz uses satellite imagery to explore climate change by creating an image of Earth as it might be analysed by a distant alien civilisation
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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
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
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A. Telescope
Airy's Water Telescope
Altazimuth Eyepiece
Artificial glass horizon
astronomical t&e: altazimuth
astronomical t&e: telescope(equatorial refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, pocket: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, water
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece(altazimuth eyepiece)
Bag of parts
Base of prismatic astrolabe
Base of tripod/stand
Belt
Box
Box of accessories
Box of bar magnets
Box Sextant
Case
Cog
documentary artifact: plaque
Double Sounding Quintant
double sounding sextant
drafting t&e: drawing instruments
drafting t&e: sector, Zenith
Drawing instruments
electrical & magnetic t&e: dip circle component
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnet
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetograph, vertical force
elescope
Eyepiece
Gear with cogs
Handle
Hook
Information/instructions note
Key
Lens
Lens cap
Lens cover
Level
Level, transit
Magnetic, dip circle
Magnetograph, vertical force
Magnetometer
Magnets
Metal bar, with grooves
Metal pins
Metal plate
Metal sheet
meteorological t&e: thermometer
Micrometer
Micrometer adjustment key
Micrometer and eyepiece
Micrometer box
Micrometer by Troughton & Simms
Micrometer eyepiece
Micrometer eyepiece filter?
Micrometer eyepiece mount cap
Micrometer eyepiece mount with eyepiece
Micrometer eyepiece part
Micrometer filter eyepiece?
Micrometer head
Micrometer head part
Micrometer lens
Mount
Naval telescope
Photograph album
Photographic print
plate, transit
Pocket compass
Pocket telescope
Pocket telescope eyepiece cap
Pole
Polygonal telescope
Portable telescope
Prismatic astrolabe
Protractor, semi-circular
Quintant
Reflecting Circle
Rolling parallel rule
Screws
Sextant
Slide rule
Solar Plate Micrometer
Spirit level
Spirit level tube
Standard measures
Standard measures of length
standard yard, trial copy
Strap
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, prismatic
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket(pocket watch compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: level
surveying & navigational t&e: plate, transit
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, reversible
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit circle, refracting
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope component: level, transit
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite
Telescope
telescope
Telescope case
Telescope gear with cogs
Telescope Lens
Telescope lens
Telescope lens cover
Telescope mount
Telescope Pole
Telescope screws
Theodolite
Thermometers
Tommy bar
Top of prismatic astrolabe
Tripod/stand
Tube
Tube eyepiece
Unidentified
Vertical force magnetograph
Vertical force magnetometer
weights & measures t&e: measurement: length, standards of
weights & measures t&e: telescope component: micrometer head
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anodised brass
black paint
boxwood, brass
boxwood, brass, paper
brass
glass
inorganic: glass
leather
liquid
mahogany, brass
metal
metal: alloy
metal: brass
metal: cast iron
metal: gunmetal with brass fittings
metal: iron
metal: silver
metal: steel
paper
photographic reproduction
pine wood
sharkskin
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silver plating?
steel
textile
wood
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Airy, George Biddell
Captain Robinson
Cauchoix, Robert -Aglae
Cooke, Thomas
Cooke, Troughton & Simms
Grubb, Thomas
James Simms
Ransomes & May
Robert Wiles Simms
Robinson, Thomas Charles
Simms
Simms, James & George
Simms, Robert Wiles
Simms, W
Simms, W.
Troughton & Simms
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Transit of Venus, 1874
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Airy, George Biddell
Christie, William Henry Mahoney
Jellicoe, John Rushworth
John Lilley & Son Ltd
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
Newbegin, Algenon Montagu
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Science Museum Group
Sheepshanks, Reverend Richard
Stokes, John Lort
Troughton & Simms
Woolley, Richard van der Riet
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Newbegin telescope (Telescope)
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Base of prismatic astrolabe
Thermometers
Solar Plate Micrometer
Strap
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope Lens)
Eyepiece
Box
Lens cap
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope gear with cogs)
Prismatic astrolabe
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope screws)
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope lens cover)
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope lens)
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Micrometer by Troughton & Simms
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope)
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