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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
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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
Backstaff
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Chart
Chart; Print
chronometer, marine
chronometer, pocket
Clock
Cross-staff
Deck Watch
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: model, escapement
Engraving
Escapement model
Glass log
Interval timer
Islamic globe
K2
Lodestone
Log glass
Log reel
Marine chronometer
Mariner's compass
Marine timekeeper
Non-achromatic telescope
Octant
One day marine timekeeper
one day marine timekeeper.
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
Orrery
Painting
Pocket chronometer
Portable telescope
Portable time keeper
Print
Prize medal
Sextant
Star Chart
Stop-watch
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)
Telescope
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)
Watch
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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brass, grenadilla wood,
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ivory (CITES), lignum vitae
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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
Sully, Henry
Tanner, J. S.
Tassaert, Philippe Joseph
Unknown
Valk, Leonhard
Vertue, George
Vlieger, Simon de
Vulliamy, Justin
White, George
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Freising
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American War of Independence: Battle of the Chesapeake, 1781
Wreck of HMS Association, 1707
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Centurion (1732)
Gloucester (1654)
Sunbeam (1874)
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Art for the Nation
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Time and Longitude
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Bird, John
Bligh, William
Cook, James
Earnshaw, Thomas
Flamsteed, Reverend John
Gibson, Thomas
Gould, Rupert Thomas
Graham, George
Hadley, John
Halley, Edmond
Harrison, John
King George II
King George IV
Maskelyne, Nevil
Newton, Isaac
Ramsden, Jesse
Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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I. Ramsden. Optician to His Majesty (Print)
Sr Isaac Newton (Print)
Edmundus Halley, Soc. Reg. Soc. Astronamus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus (Print)
George Graham, clockmaker, Done from the Original Picture in the Possession of the Right Honble George Earl of Macclesfield, &c (Print)
John Harrison...Inventor of the Compound Pendulum & of several Time Keepers... (Print)
Thomas Mudge (Print)
'Johannes Flamsteedius ...' [John Flamsteed, 1646-1719] (Print)
A fleet of East Indiamen at sea (Painting)
A Whaler off a Mountainous Coast (Painting)
Armillary sphere
Mariner's compass
Experimental marine timekeeper (Marine chronometer)
Description abregee d'une horlorge d'une nouvelle invention... (Book)
John Bird of London, who furnished the Chief Observatories of the World... (Print)
[James Bradley] Jacobus Bradley, S.T.P. Regalis Societatis Socius Astronomus Regius et apud Oxonienses Astronomiae Professor Savilianus (Print)
The Late Regulator (Clock)
A Dutch Ship Running onto a Rocky Coast (Painting)
A Ship Wrecked off a Rocky Coast (Painting)
Marine chronometer
494 (Marine chronometer)
129 (Deck Watch)
H4 (Marine timekeeper)
557 (Watch)
H3 (Marine timekeeper)
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