Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Moon globe by John Russell, England, 1797
1797
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)
2008 (prototype)
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Gunter quadrant
1640
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes
1648-1687
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Ebony and brass octant.
1777-1810
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Altitude quadrant
1552
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"
1898-1900
Objective lens by John Reeves
1657-1689
1999 eclipse viewer
1999
Hand held solar viewer
1750-1799
Base (foot) from brass quadrant
Glass beaker from brass quadrant
Base (foot) from brass quadrant
Base (foot) from brass quadrant
Islamic Astrolabe
1666-1667
Brass weight from brass quadrant
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Model (scale 1:200) of the Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope
1957 (original); 1961 (model)
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1825
Reflecting telescope by William Herschel
1783-1785
Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond of 18-inch radius with optical sights on a tripod
1780-1820
Sextant by Jesse Ramsden
circa 1772
Twelve-inch quadrant by John Bird
1760-1769
Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight
1829
Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture
1829
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation
1988
Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil.
1919
Digital Optical Module (DOM) from the IceCube neutrino detector
2007-2008
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1816
Islamic astrolabe, 1645-1655
1645-1655
Islamic Astrolabe
1666-1667
Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box
1883
Orrery planetary model
1789-1795
Ptolemaic armillary sphere
1501-1600
Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array
1967