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1. 010095.de.56(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(7)
Title:
Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 173, showing the second mate, standing among scientific equipment: 'To chronicle the exact circumstances under which these high results appeared, the photographic camera was employed with effect. Accordingly in Stereograph, No. 7, may b...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 4(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(10)
Title:
Peking Observatory. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Close view of astronomical instruments in the old Jesuit observatory in Beijing.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 4(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(11)
Title:
Peking Observatory. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Arched top. Close view of astronomical instruments in the old Jesuit observatory in Beijing.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

4. 1800.b.1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
1800.b.1(52)
Title:
Horloges et instruments astronomiques. Photographer: Bayer, Charles
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a collection of instruments, including two 17th-century clocks (1, 244), two astronomical globes from the 15th and 17th centuries (486, 654) and three 15th- and 16th-century astrolabes (653, 655, 656).
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1859
Extent:
1 item

5. 8560.i.22, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(3)
Title:
The equitorial camera [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Showing the telescopic camera for the observation of the total solar eclipse at Camorta, being set up at the observation station by members of the Indian party.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

6. 8560.i.22, 1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(4)
Title:
The Browning Reflector, with spectroscopic camera attached [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography General view of the reflector and camera set up at the observing station of the Eclipse Expedition.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

7. 8560.i.22, 1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(5)
Title:
The single prism spectroscope, with heliostat and Janssen apparatus [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography General view of equipment set up at the observing station.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

8. 8560.i.22, 1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(6)
Title:
The Browning Reflector and single prism spectroscope, as arranged for the eclipse [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography View of equipment set up at the observing station of the Eclipse Expedition, with members of the Indian party posed beside them.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

9. C.44.h.5, 2(589)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.44.h.5, 2(589)
Title:
Heliostat and other instruments. Dubosq-Soleil [at the Great Exhibition, London]. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Arrangement of various scientific instruments, displayed at the Great Exhibition.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

10. Maps 5.d.21(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 5.d.21(3)
Title:
Sternwarte bei Peking [Observatory at Peking]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards astronomical instruments standing on a brick terrace in the observatory at Peking.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item