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The astronomer's chair : a visual and cultural history /Omar W. Nasim.
2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
522/.5
The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first astronomer royal : Volume Two, 1682-1703 /compiled and edited by Eric G. Forbes, and (for Maria Forbes) by Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth.
1997. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
52
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time /Dava Sobel ; with a new preface by the author.
2014. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
528.282
Tractatus Astrarii / di Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio ; a cura di Aldo Bullo.
[2010]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
681.11
La gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer les cadrans solaires avec la plus grande prâecision, par les meilleures mâethodes, mises a la portâee de tout le monde avec des observations fur la maniere de regler les horloges / par Dom Francois Bedos de Celles
1760 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:529.78
Sammlung Mensing : altwissenschaftliche instrumente katalog /von Max Engelmann.
1924. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
520.25"14/17"
Splitting the second : the story of atomic time /Tony Jones
2000. • BOOK • 4 copies available.
529.7
Moving stars changing scenes : gems of the ancient Chinese astronomy relics = Xing yi wu huan : Zhongguo gu dai tian wen wen wu jing hua /[author Yip Chee-kuen ; editor Lawrence W.K. Lee ; English translation Lawrence W.K. Lee, Ann L.F. Hui].
2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
681.11(512.317)
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1877, June 2.
1877 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Galileo and 400 years of telescopic astronomy / Peter Grego, David Mannion.
2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
52:92GALILEO
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1883, June 2.
1883 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1884, June 7.
1884 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1886, June 5.
1886 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1885, June 6.
1885 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1882, June 3.
1882 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1879, June 7.
1879 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
An observer of observatories : the journal of Thomas Bugge's tour of Germany, Holland and England in 1777 /edited by Kurt Moller Pedersen and Peter de Clercq.
2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1(43+492+42)"1777"
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1881, June 4.
1881 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1878, June 1.
1878 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1880, June 5.
1880 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
"Chronometer tables" : or hour angles for selected altitudes between latitudes 35 and 50 with variations for 1' in all elements /arranged by Percy L. Davis, F.R.A.S., of the Nautical Almanac Office. (Joint author of Davis's Azimuth tables.)
1897 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available.
527.093T
Verification and extension of La Caille's arc of meridian at the Cape of Good Hope / by Sir homas Maclear
1866 • FOLIO • 4 copies available.
528.232.21
Starlight : la nascita dell'astrofisica in Italia = the origins of astrophysics in Italy /Ileana Chinnici.
2016 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
52
Histoire celeste ou recueil de toutes les observations astronomiques faites par ordre du roy : avec un discours preliminaire sur le progres de l'astronomie...
1741 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
52.092:094
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