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An international checklist of astrolabes / Derek J. Price.
1955. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520.256
Make-it-yourself nocturnal / National Maritime Museum
1979 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
520
Collection de diffâerens traitâes sur des instrumens d'astronomie, physique, &c. / par J.H. de Magellan
1780. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520:681.2:094
Transit circle : the story of William Sims (1793-1860)
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92SIMMS MEN
The Cambridge eclipse photography guide : how and where to observe and photograph solar and lunar eclipses
1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
77:521.81
The globes, celestial and terrestrial / Augustus de Morgan, F.R.A.S. & C.P.S.
1854 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:528.28
Teorica degli stomenti ottici : destinati ad estendere i confini della visione naturale /di Giovanni Santini, Prof. di astronomia dell'i. R. Universita di Padova ...
1828 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
520.2:094
Description et usage du cercle de reflexion : avec differentes methodes pour calculer les observations nautiques /par Ch. de Borda
1810 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:520.253
Traitâe de navigation / par J.-B.-E. du Bourguet.
1808. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
527:094
Astrolabes / Dominique et Eric Delalande ; Patrick Rocca.
[20--?]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
Il catalogo delle stelle doppie / Giovanni Battista Amici ; a cur a di Alberto Meschiari = Catalogue of double stars.
• FOLIO • 1 copy available.
Ausfèuhrliche Methode mit dem Fraunhofer'schen Heliometer Beobachtungen anzustellen nebst Cometen-Beobachtungen mit solchem Instrumente auf der Ernestinischen sternwarte Seeberg / angestellt, von P. A. Hansen
1827. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
520:094
Der Meister und die Fernrohre : das Wechselspiel zwischen Astronomie und Optik in der Geschichte : Festschrift zum 85. Geburtstag von Rolf Riekher /herausgegeben von Jèurgen Hamel und Inge Keil.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520.2
Manual of astronomy / G. B. Airy, Esq., Astronomer Royal
1859 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
52:094
Science, tools & magic.
[1997]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
681.09(=927)
Galileo : images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope /edited by Paolo Galluzzi.
2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
061.43(083.83)
The midnight sky : familiar notes on the stars and the planets ; with thirty-two star-maps and numerous other illustrations /by Edwin Dunkin.
[1869] • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520:094
Olai Roemeri Triduum observationum astronomicarum : a MDCCVI. diebus m Oct. XX. usque ad XXIII. instituarum reductum et cum tabulis comparatum /ab I.G. Galle ; dissertatio inauguralis.
1845. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
520:094
Royal Observatory Greenwich : a history in objects /Louise Devoy
2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
The world in your hands : an exhibition of globes and planetaria :from the collection of Rudolf Schmidt.
1994. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
528.951
Making time fit : Astronomers, artisans and the state, 1770-1820 /Eoin Edward Phillips
2014 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
582.282
The invention of the achromatic and aplanatic lens : with special regard to the role played by Samuel Klingenstierna /By N.V.E. Nordenmark . . . [et al]
[2016] • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
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1900: the new age : a guide to the exhibition
1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
069(425.9):5(091)
Abhandlungen von Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel / herausgegeben von Rudolf Engelmann ... in drei bèanden.
1875-76. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available.
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