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Astrolabes and quadrants
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Analemmatic dial
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astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
astronomical t&e: telescope, galilean
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Chain boom link
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data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: napier's bones
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Galilean telescope
Horary quadrant with Gunter projection
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link: chain boom
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surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
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timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, analemmatic
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(30 minute)
timekeeping t&e: nocturnal
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 90-98 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked: equipped: rigged)
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boxwood
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Backhuysen, Ludolf
Bol, Ferdinand
Browne, John
Collins, Greenvile
Cooper, Samuel
Cunigham, Jacob
Diest, Adriaen van
English School, 17th century
Ferreri, Joannes Paolo
Gascar, Henri
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Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hougue, 1692
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
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Art for the Nation
Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Horary quadrant with Gunter projection
Hour-glass
Napier's bones
Charles II, 1630 - 85 (Miniature)
Edmond Halley, 1656-1742, Astronomer Royal (Painting)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (Bust)
Hour-glass
Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 (Painting)
Naseby (1655); Warship; 80-86 guns (Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model)
Chain boom link (Chain boom link)
Flagmen of Lowestoft: Edward Montagu, 1625-72, 1st Earl of Sandwich (Painting)
James II 1633-1701 (Painting)
William Hewer, 1642-1715 (Painting)
Naval reward medal (Naval reward)
Telescope (Portable telescope)
Harwich Woodbridge and Handfordwater with the sands from the Nazeland to Hosely Bay. To ye Honble Samuel Pepys Esq this chart is dedicated and presented by Capt Greenvil Collins Hydrog to the King 1686 (Chart; Print)
Destruction of the Soleil Royal at the Battle of La Hogue, 23 May 1692 (Painting)
Armillary sphere
Analemmatic dial
Pocket telescope
Nocturnal
William III Landing at Brixham, Torbay, 5 November 1688 (Painting)
Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676) (Painting)
St Michael (1669); Warship; 98 guns; 1st rate (Full hull model; Navy Board model; Rigged model)
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