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of the manufacture of the specula, and full descriptions of all the machinery connected with these
instruments
1844 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
92Rosse
A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical
instruments
made and sold by W and S Jones :
1799 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
681
Traitâe des
instruments
astronomiques des arabes / composâe au treiziáeme siáecle par Aboul Hhassan Ali
1834-35. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520:094
The new astronomer : or, astronomy made easy by such
instruments
that readily shew by observation the
1735. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
52:094
Uhren und wissenschaftliche instrumente der familie Hager
1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
681.11Hager
Practical observations on the Nautical Almanac and
astronomical
ephemeris : arguments proving that it
1822 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available.
094:524.3(059)
National Technical Museum in Prague : past, present, collections
1997. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
069:5/6
Deutsche und Niederlandische astronomische Instrumente des 11-18 Jahrhunderts / von Ernst Zinner.
1956. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520
The camera obscura : a chronicle /John H Hammond
1981 • BOOK • 2 copies available.
681.7
The midnight sky : familiar notes on the stars and planets
1891 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
524
Man is not lost : a record of two hundred years of
astronomical
navigation with The Nautical Almanac
1978 • PAMPHLET • 10 copies available.
524.3(059)
James Ferguson's newspaper advertisements 1742-1776 / John R. Milburn.
• PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
5(042.3)"17"
The 125th anniversary of Robert Harlow and Son Limited : two hundred and twenty five years in brass
1958 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
681.113.1
Dividing the circle : the development of critical angular measurement in astronomy 1500-1850 / Chapman, Allan. 1995
1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520"1500/1850"
Scientific instrument society Dutch visit [to Museum Boerhaave] 13-17 May 1991. : programme booklet /Museum Boerhaave.
1991. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
681.09
The astrological astrolabe of Queen Elizabeth / George Gabb, Esq.
• PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
520.256
Robotic observatories
1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.78:520.1
A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century / by Agnes M. Clarke.
1885. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
52"18"
Sun compass /cby Francis Chichester.
[1944]. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520.78
Der Ptolemèaus von Kassel : Landgraf Wilhelm IV von Hessen-Kassel und die Astronomie /bearbeitet von Karsten Gaulke, [hrsg. Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel].
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520(43)"15"
Astronomy in the UK
1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
52
Benjamin Martin's newspaper advertisements, 1742-1782 : an excerpt from an annotated bibliography of Benjamin Martin /by John R. Milburn.
• PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
5(042.3)"17"
25 anni di fotografia nello spazio
1990? • BOOK • 1 copy available.
061.43(083.83)
The sun in the church: cathedrals as solar observatories
1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
282:945.04/.05
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