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Astrolabes and quadrants
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astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery
Celestial globe
Celestial pocket globe
Clockwork globe
documentary artifact: chart
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Indo-Persian)
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Persian)
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, clockwork
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, miniature
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, table
documentary artifact: globe, moon: selenographis
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(tellurion & lunarium)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, clockwork
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, miniature
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, pocket
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, silent
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personal symbol: coat of arms
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surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope
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timekeeper: clock, globe
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
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Abel, Carl
Adams
Adams, Dudley
Adams, George
after Herman Moll
after Oterschaden
after Spirinx
American Anti-Slavery Society
Anich, Peter
Bale
Bardin
Bardin, Thomas Marriott
Bardin, William
Bauer, Johann Bernard
Berry, William
Blaeu, Willem Jansz
Bough, Samuel
Cary, John
Cary, William
Casella, Louis
Cassini, Giovanni Maria
Cattin, Jean Baptiste
Ceulen, Jan Jansz van
Charles Smith & Son
Colom, Jacob Aertsz
Coronelli, Vincenzo
Cushee, after Richard
Cushee, Richard
Delamarche, Charles-Francois
Delisle, Guillaume
Doetechum, Baptista
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel
Dunn, Samuel
Eder, Tobias
Eimmart, Georg Christoph
Ferguson, James
Feuille, Jacques de La
Fortin, Jean
Frisius, Gemma
Garde, Jacques de la
Greuter, Matthaeus
Hardy, Jacques
Heyden, Gaspard van der
Hill, Nathaniel
Hondius, Jodocus
II, Isaac Habrecht
III, Isaac Habrecht
Jacques de la Garde
James Kirkwood & Sons
Janssonius, Johannes
J G Klinger's Kunsthandlung
Jones, Samuel
Jones, William
Klinger, Johann Georg
Landes Industrie Comptoir
Lane
Lane, Nicolas
Langlois, Hyacinthe
Langren, Arnold Floris van
Langren, Jacob Floris van
Lapie, Pierre
Lea, Philip
Malby & Co
Martin, Benjamin
Mercator, Gerardus
Messier, Charles
Miller, John
Miller, William
Moll, Herman
Morden, Robert
Neuwaldt, Amos
Newton
Newton & Co.
Newton & Son
Newton, John
Newton Son & Berry
Nollet, Jean Antoine
Oterschaden, Joannes
Outhier, Abbe Reginald
Palmer, William I.
Patrick, Thomas
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Pigeon, Jean
Platus, Carolus
Price, Charles
Rossi, Domenico de
Rossi, Giuseppe de
Russell, John
Schissler, Senior, Christoph
Senex, John
Senex, Mary
Seutter, Matthaeus
Seyler, Johann Tomas
Unknown
Valk, Gerard
Valk, Leonard
Veen, Adriaen
Vopel, after Caspar
West
Whitwell, Charles
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Moon
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin
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Adams
Alexander Chaumont
Alvaro de Mendana
American Anti-Slavery Society
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Balleny, John
Bardin
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Brahe, Tycho
Briscoe, John
Butler, Thomas
Cavendish, Thomas
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Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Dampier, William
Davies, John
Drake, Francis
Hadley, John
Halley, Edmond
Houtman, Frederik de
Hudson, Henry
I, Napoleon
Janssonius, Johannes
Jean-Francois de La Perouse
John Gore
Landau, Nicolas E.
Magellan, Ferdinand
Maire, Jacob Le
Newton
Nuyts, Peter
Oliver van der Noort, Oliver van der
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
Pelsaert, Francois
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Phipps, G. J.
Pickersgill, Richard
Ross, James Clark
Ross, John
Schouten, Willem Cornelissen
Seyler, Johann Tomas
Urban de Gelais, Urban de
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Celestial globe gores (Globe gores)
Celestial table globe (Table globe)
Terrestrial globe gores (Globe gores)
Terrestrial globe gores (Globe gores)
Terrestrial globe gores (Globe gores)
Orrery
Newton's New and Improved Celestial Globe (Floor globe)
Newton's Improved Pocket Celestial Globe (Celestial globe)
Celestial table globe (Table globe)
Terrestrial globe gores (Globe gores)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Terrestrial miniature globe (Miniature globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial miniature globe (Miniature globe)
Islamic globe
Islamic globe
Islamic globe
Islamic globe
Islamic globe
Islamic globe
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Islamic globe
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