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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
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Exploring the Arctic
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A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
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Armillary planetarium
Armillary sphere
Astrolabe
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Flemish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Syro-Egyptian)
astronomical t&e: planetarium
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
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Chart
chronometer, marine
chronometer, pocket
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documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: model, escapement
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K2
Lodestone
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Non-achromatic telescope
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One day marine timekeeper
one day marine timekeeper.
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
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Prize medal
Sextant
Star Chart
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surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: glass, log
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone
surveying & navigational t&e: log, estimator(log reel only)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural(5ft)
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timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, pocket
timekeeper: clock, carriage
timekeeper: regulator
timekeeper: regulator, astronomical
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H1)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H2)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H3)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H4)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K2)
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Watch 'K2'
water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman
water transport: hunting vessel: whaler
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
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Abraham Louis Breguet & Fils
Adams, George
al-Baghdadi, Mahmud ibn Shawka
Arnold, John Roger
Arscenius, Ferdinand
Berthoud, Ferdinand
Bird, John
Brockbank, John
Carmichael, John Wilson
Christian Mur & Johann Sterr
Clerk, James
Cook, Henry R.
Dahl, Michael
Dance, Commander Nathaniel
Dance, Nathaniel
Danckerts, Johan
Dandridge, Bartholomew
Earnshaw, Thomas
Faber, Johan
Farmer, William
Garner, Will
Gerhard
Gibson, after Thomas
Glynne, Richard
Graham, George
Green, Valentine
Halley, Edmond
Harrison, John
Hudson, Thomas
J. & M. Brockbanks
Jacobus Houbraken, Jacobus
John Arnold & Son
John Tallis & Co
Jones, John
Kendall, Larcum
King, Thomas
Kneller, Godfrey
Lewis, William
Longland, William
Mooy, H.
Mudge, Thomas
Mulier, Pieter
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd
Plattenberg, Matthieu van
Pocock, Nicholas
Ramsden, Jesse
Rheita, Antonio Maria Schyrle de
Robert Home, Robert
Robinson, Owen
Rogers, J.
Schiavonetti, Lewis
Seale, Richard William
Sharp, Abraham
Shee, Martin Archer
Sherwin, John Keyse
Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Snellen, William
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Valk, Leonhard
Vertue, George
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American War of Independence: Battle of the Chesapeake, 1781
Wreck of HMS Association, 1707
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Art for the Nation
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Bird, John
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Thomas Mudge (Print)
Edmundus Halley, Soc. Reg. Soc. Astronamus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus (Print)
Sr Isaac Newton (Print)
John Bird of London, who furnished the Chief Observatories of the World... (Print)
A Dutch Ship Running onto a Rocky Coast (Painting)
John Hadley, 1682-1744 (Painting)
George Graham, clockmaker, Done from the Original Picture in the Possession of the Right Honble George Earl of Macclesfield, &c (Print)
[James Bradley] Jacobus Bradley, S.T.P. Regalis Societatis Socius Astronomus Regius et apud Oxonienses Astronomiae Professor Savilianus (Print)
Armillary sphere
Experimental marine timekeeper (Marine chronometer)
'Johannes Flamsteedius ...' [John Flamsteed, 1646-1719] (Print)
Portable time keeper (Portable time keeper)
I. Ramsden. Optician to His Majesty (Print)
John Harrison...Inventor of the Compound Pendulum & of several Time Keepers... (Print)
Thomas Earnshaw, 1749-1829 (Painting)
Islamic globe
The Late Regulator (Clock)
H1 (Marine timekeeper)
Mariner's compass
A fleet of East Indiamen at sea (Painting)
A Whaler off a Mountainous Coast (Painting)
A Ship Wrecked off a Rocky Coast (Painting)
113 (Pocket chronometer)
Astrolabe
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