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The astrolabe / by James E. Morrison.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
522.4
Astronomy before the telescope
1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
52"-/16"
Astronomische Uhren und Welt-Modelle der Priestermechaniker im 18. Jahrhundert
1996 • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
681.2
Celestial treasury : from music of the spheres to the conquest of space
2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
681.2 LAC
Astronomy through the ages : the story of the human attempt to understand the universe
1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
52
An essay on dew and several appearances connected with it
1866 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
527.093M
Cahiers Franðcois Viáete sâerie III - no 14 2023 : une culture de la prâecision : les cercles mâeridiens aux XIXe et VVe siáecles /under the direction of Daniel Belteki, Julien Gressot, Loèic Jeanson & Jean Davoigneau.
2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Basis astronomiae : sive astronomiae pars mechanica... methodi observandi Roemerianae... Tridui observationum Tusculanarum Roemeri
1735 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
520.1:094
The world of visual time signals for mariners : time balls, time guns, time lights and other signals /Roger Kinns, editor
2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
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An introduction to practical astronomy : with a collection of anatomical tables /by Elias Loomis.
1891. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
52
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831 : the founding of a colonial observatory : incorporating a biography of Fearon Fallows /by Brian Warner.
1995. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520.1(687)
To the ends of the Earth : how the greatest maps were made /Philip Parker.
2023. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
526.09
Report on the total eclipse of the sun, August 17-18, 1868. As observed at Guntoor, under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for India
[1868] • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available.
52.092.9
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