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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
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Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
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Globes and globe gores
Herschel family
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The Herschels as experimenters
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4. Astronomy and print
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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Green Blackwall collection
Herschel family
Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
Maritime Art Greenwich
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
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Analemmatic dial
Armillary sphere
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
astronomical t&e: telescope, galilean
Backstaff
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Chain boom link
Chart
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: napier's bones
Frame model
Full hull model
Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model
Full hull model; Navy Board model; Rigged model
Galilean telescope
Horary quadrant with Gunter projection
Hour-glass
link: chain boom
Medal
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Napier's bones
Naval reward
Naval Reward medal
Navy Board, Skeleton model
Navy Board model
Nocturnal
Non-achromatic telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
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surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
Telescope
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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cotton
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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
Jan Wyck
Kneller, Godfrey
Largilliere, Nicolas de
Lely, Peter
Marke, John
Roubiliac, Louis-Francois
Spence, Robert
Thomas Simon
Tuttell, Thomas
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Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
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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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Naseby (1655)
Royal Charles
Saint. Michael (1669)
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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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The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits
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Marke, John
Michel, Charles
Montagu, Edward
Montagu, John
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Newton, Isaac
Penn, William
Pepys, Samuel
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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Ruyter, Michel Adriaenszoon de
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Horary quadrant with Gunter projection
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)
Telescope (Portable telescope)
Destruction of the Soleil Royal at the Battle of La Hogue, 23 May 1692 (Painting)
Hour-glass
Naval reward medal (Naval reward)
William Hewer, 1642-1715 (Painting)
Napier's bones
Naseby (1655); Warship; 80-86 guns (Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model)
Charles II, 1630 - 85 (Miniature)
Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 (Painting)
James II 1633-1701 (Painting)
Chain boom link (Chain boom link)
Edmond Halley, 1656-1742, Astronomer Royal (Painting)
Flagmen of Lowestoft: Edward Montagu, 1625-72, 1st Earl of Sandwich (Painting)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (Bust)
Hour-glass
Armillary sphere
Dutch attack on the Medway: the 'Royal Charles' carried into Dutch Waters, 12 June 1667 (Painting)
Analemmatic dial
Pocket telescope
The Royal Observatory from Crooms Hill, about 1696 (Painting)
William III Landing at Brixham, Torbay, 5 November 1688 (Painting)
Nocturnal
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