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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
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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
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Nicholas Pocock
Oil paintings
Opium Wars
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25 degree latitude plate backboard
30 degree latitude plate backboard
35 degree latitude plate backboard
38 degree latitude plate backboard
40 degree latitude plate backboard
45 degree latitude plate backboard
50 degree latitude plate backboard
Advertising material
Armillary sphere
Astrolabe
Astrolabe7
Astrolabe alidade
Astrolabe assembly instruction booklet
Astrolabe back
Astrolabe box
Astrolabe front border
Astrolabe front latitude plate
Astrolabe horizon plate
Astrolabe latitude plate
Astrolabe pointer
Astrolabe rete
Astronomical compendium
astronomical t&e: astrolabe
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(altitude sundial)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Arabic)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(European)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Flemish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Hispano-Moorish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Hispano-Moorish?)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Indo-Persian)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Maghribi)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(maghribi)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Moorish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Persian)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Syrian)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Syro-Egyptian)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Turkish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Turkish?)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(western)
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
Azimuth compass
Back backboard
Backstaff
Base of prismatic astrolabe
Base of tripod/stand
Boat badge
Booklet for the astrolabe
Box
Box of accessories
Case
Chart
Cover for the astrolabe
documentary artifact: model, astrolabe
Fitted astrolabe case
Front backboard
Horary quadrant
Horizon plate backboard
Identifier, star
Instruction sheet for astrolable
MAP-BOUND
Mariner's astrolabe
Mariner's Astrolabe
Medal
Model astrolabe
Model astrolabe case
Model astrolabe pamphlet
Model astrolabe part
Nocturnal
Painting
personal symbol: coat of arms
Plate
Pointer
Print
Prismatic astrolabe
Prophatius astrolabe quadrant
Stand
Star identifier
Survey chronometer
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, prismatic
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: cross staff
surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant, horary
timekeeping t&e: astrolabe
timekeeping t&e: astrolabe(Arabic)
timekeeping t&e: astrolabe(Persian)
timekeeping t&e: dial, astronomical compendium
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: nocturnal
Top of prismatic astrolabe
Tripod/stand
Universal equinoctial scaphe dial
Vertical disc dial
water transport: sailing vessel ?
water transport accessory: badge, boat
Wedge for astrolabe
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embossed paper
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ivory (CITES), lignum vitae
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metal
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metal: white metal
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'Ali, Hajji
'Isa, Muhammad Muqim ibn Mulla
Adam, Victor
Adams, Edgar Tarry
Ahmad, Rif 'al abu
al-A'imma, 'Abd
al-Baghdadi, Mahmud ibn Shawka
al-Battuti, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
al-Jilani, Yusuf ibn Hajji
al-Kirmani, Ja'far ibn 'Umar
al-Sarraj
al-Yazdi, Muhammad Mahdi
al-Yazdi, Muhammad Muqim
Allah, Hasan 'Abd
Andrieu, Bertrand
Arscenius, Ferdinand
Arsenius, Gualterus
Becquet
Bernard Lemercier & Co
Bichebois
Bion, Nicolas
Bos, Joannes
Breton, Louis Le
British Museum
Bry, Auguste
Cole, Humfrey
Collaert, Adrianus
Collaert, Ioan
Cooke, Troughton & Simms
Danti, Egnatio
Denham, Henry Mangles
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie
Depaulis, Alexis Joseph
Descrolières, Adrian
Doncker, Hendrik
Duvivier, Pierre Simon Benjamin
England, B.
Etting, Flolydia M.
Fornasetti, Piero
Gabriel Stokes
Galle, Johannes
Galle, Phillips
Galle, Theodor
Gambart & Co
Garner, Will
Gemini, Thomas
Giamin, Antonius
Gide
Glenn Ellen Scientific Company
Goupil, Ernest
Guerard
Guilbert, M.
Habermel, Erasmus
Hartmann, Georg
Heidelberg School
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
HM Admiralty
Isfahani, Muhammad Baqir
Jacobz, G. Philips
Jacottet
Junior, Frederick De Wit
Khalil, Muhammad
Langlume
Langlume, Pierre
Laurent
Leborne, Louis
Lemercier
Leonae, Amerigo
Lucas-Dean, R.
Lucini, Antonio Francesco
MacAlister, P.
Maguire, Marian
Marcassus, Jean Pierre Casimir de
Mayer, Auguste Etienne Francois
Mercator, Gerard
Monthelier, Jules
Morier, E.
Muhammad Mahdi al-Khadim al-Yazdi
Naze, Jean
Paris, E
Piquer, Michael D.
Potter, John Dennett
Prior, E. H.
Qayini, Qasim 'Ali
Richards, George Henry
Rye, W. B.
Sabatier
Sainson, Louise Auguste de
Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille
Saunders, Harold N.
Schissler, Senior, Christoph
Shorer, Peter
Spitzer Workshop
Stokes, Gabriel
Stokes, John Lort
Stradanus, Johannes
Sutton, Henry
Tardieu, Ambroise
Tastu, J
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
Tirpenne
United States Naval Oceanographic Office
Unknown
Villeneuve
Vincendon-Dumoulin, Clement Adrian
Vitasse
W. Watson & Sons
Walker, J. & C.
Ward, John Stanton
Wild
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Prague
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probably Lyon, France
probably Northern Italy
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Rome
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Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588
First Voyage of corvette Astrolabe, 1826-1829
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Coquille, fl.1822 (French)
Jester fl.1981
Mariner (1944)
Zelee ca.1838 [French navy]
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Exploration and Cultural Encounters
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
Time and Longitude
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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d'Urville, Jules Sébastien César Dumont
de France, Louis Auguste
de France, Louis Stanislas Xavier
Digsby
Drake, Francis
Duperrey, Louis Isidore
Hownam-Meek, Anthony
King Charles X of France
King William IV
Laws, A
Magellan, Ferdinand
Maori
Noymatala
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Proctor, David V.
Queen Elizabeth I
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Runciman, Walter Leslie
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