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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
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De Gomme collection
Des Barres collection
Duckworth collection
Duff collection
Ericsson collection
Globes and globe gores
Goodsall collection
Green Blackwall collection - charts
Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection
Hopton Hall collection
Lockyer collection
Loose maps and charts: general collection
Moriarty collection
Northey collection
Penrose collection
Pirelli collection
Portolans and loose charts on vellum
Printed atlases
STC collection
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Armillary sphere
astronomical t&e: cosmosphere
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
Box
Box base
Box lid
Broken part
Celestial navigational globe
Cosmosphere
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(reproduction)
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, table
documentary artifact: globe, moon: selenographis
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(reproduction)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(tellurion & lunarium)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, miniature
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, pocket
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, silent
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
Doll
Ethnographic boat model
Facsimile globe
Floor globe
food service t&e: tray
food service t&e: tray, tea
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
Hand globe
household accessory: box
Instruction globe
Islamic globe
lifebuoy, modal
lifebuoy, model
life ring, souvenir
Lunar globe
Miniature
Miniature globe
Mirror
Model lifebelt
Model lifebuoy
model lifebuoy
Navigational globe
Non-achromatic telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
original art: plaque, portrait
Orrery
personal gear: box, snuff
Pincushion
Plank-on-frame
Pocket globe
Pocket Globe
Portable telescope
Portrait plaque
Rigged model
Sails set
Selenographia
shot, harpoon
Silhouette
Snuff box
Snuff box lid
surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope
Table globe
Telescope
Tellurion
Tellurium
Terrestial pocket globe
Terrestrial globe
Terrestrial pocket globe
Tray
water transport: fishing vessel: lugger
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)
water transport: native craft: boat, racing (Burma)
water transport: sailing vessel: lugger, Folkstone
water transport accessory: shot, harpoon
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anodized brass
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cloth
coating: lacquer
coating: shell-lac
colour wash
copper
copper-engraved
copper-plate engraved
copper plate
copper plate engraved
cotton
cotton velvet
embossed paper
fabric
facsimile
felt
gilded-leather
gilt
gilt metal
glass
hand-coloured
hand-coloured lithography
hand-colour lithography
hand-painted
hand coloured lithography
ink
iron
iron alloy
ivory
lacquer
lead
lead (?)
leather
manuscript
metal
metal: brass, wood, papier mache
metal: brass-gilt
metal: gilt
metal: gold
metal: iron
nylon
oak
oil
oil paint
organic: cotton
organic: papier mache
organic: papier mache, ?
organic: velvet
paint
paper
papier mache
papier mache ?
papier machet
plaster
plastic
printed lithography
printed paper
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silver
silvered brass
stamped
steel
stipple plate engraved
textile
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - QH
Display - ROG
Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery
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Abel, Carl
Adams
Adams, Dudley
Adams, George
Adams, Jack
after Herman Moll
Anonymous (after Moll)
Bardin
Bardin, Thomas Marriott
Bardin, William
Berry, William
Blaeu, Willem Jansz
Cary & Co.
Cary, John
Cary, William
Cassini, Giovanni Maria
Ceulen, Jan Jansz van
Charles Price; John Senex
Charles Smith & Son
Clarks
Colom, Jacob Aertsz
Coronelli, Vincenzo
Cushee, Richard
Deans
Delamarche, Charles-Francois
Delisle, Guillaume
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel
Dudley Adams
Eder, Tobias
Ferguson, James
Ferreri, Joannes Paolo
Feuille, Jacques de La
Fortin, Jean
Frisius, Gemma
Greuter, Matthaeus
Hardy, Jacques
Heath & Co. Ltd
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Heyden, Gaspard van der
Hill, Nathaniel
Hondius, Jodocus
II, Isaac Habrecht
James Ferguson
John & William Cary
John Miller
Johnston, Alexander Keith
Johnston, William
Keere, Pieter van den
Klinger, Johann Georg
Landes Industrie Comptoir
Lane
Lane, Nicolas
Langlois, Hyacinthe
Langren, Arnold Floris van
Langren, Jacob Floris van
Lapie, Pierre
Lea, Philip
Magnac, H. de
Martin, Benjamin
Mercator, Gerardus
Messier, Charles
Miller, John
Moll, Herman
Morden, Robert
Muller, William
Newton
Newton & Son
Newton, John
Newton Son & Berry
Nicolas Lane
Nollet, Jean Antoine
Palmer, William I.
Patrick, Thomas
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Price, Charles
Richard Cushee
Russell, John
Senex, John
Senex, Mary
Seutter, Matthaeus
Stanford, Edward
Thomas Patrick
unidentified
Unknown
Valk, Gerard
Valk, Leonard
Vandermaelen, Philippe
Veen, Adriaen
Verlag Dietrich Reimer
W. & S. Jones
West
William Palmer; John Newton
Wright, Gabriel
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Iran
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Lothian, Edinburgh, Scotland
Louvain
Low Countries
Myanmar
New Eltham
Nuremberg
Paris
Rome
Strasbourg
United Kingdom
Unknown
Venice
Weimer, Germany
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Ellen MacArthur circumnavigation, 2004
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Vessels
Olympic
St. Louis fl.1708
Strathaird (1932)
Stratheden (1937)
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Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Moon
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
Time and Longitude
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Adams
Alcock, John
Alexander Chaumont
Alvaro de Mendana
Balleny, John
Bardin
Bellingshausen, Thaddeus Fabian von
Biscoe, John
Blackhall, Vera
Brahe, Tycho
Briscoe, John
Butler, Thomas
Charles Clerke
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Coronelli, Vincenzo
Coull, Francis Peter
Dampier, William
Davies, John
Drake, Francis
Fawssett, A. C.
Graves, Thomas
Greeley, Adolphus
Hadley, John
Halley, Edmond
Houtman, Frederik de
Hudson, Henry
I, Napoleon
Jean-Francois de La Perouse
John Gore
Landau, Nicolas E.
Magellan, Ferdinand
Maire, Jacob Le
McCartney, Samuel
Michel, Charles
Nelson, Horatio
Newton
Nuyts, Peter
Oliver van der Noort, Oliver van der
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
Pelsaert, Francois
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Phipps, G. J.
Pickersgill, Richard
Ross, James Clark
Ross, John
Schouten, Willem Cornelissen
Vancouver, George
Vries, Gerrit de
Witt, Gerrit Frederiksz de
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Celestial floor globe (Floor globe)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial floor globe (Floor globe)
Terrestrial instruction globe (Instruction globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe (Floor globe)
Terrestrial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
R.M.S 'Olympic' pincushion (Pincushion)
Islamic globe
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Armillary sphere
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