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What's worth looking up for in 2025? Discover this year's must-see moments with Royal Observatory astronomers
Reframing Black history: Joseph Ijoyemi and the Atlantic Worlds gallery
From resilience to resistance, two new paintings in the Atlantic Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum celebrate the history of pre-colonial Africa
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The Shipping Forecast was first broadcast on the BBC in 1925. Explore the history of the forecast with the National Maritime Museum, and discover objects connected with the power of our ocean
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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
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surveying & navigational t&e: circumferentor
surveying & navigational t&e: sundial & compass, pocket
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg(Augsburg)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial
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