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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. Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Mizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad مزي، شمس [زين] الدين محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise in ten parts (فصل) and a conclusion (خاتمة) on using the astrolabe by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mizzī (زين الدين محمد المزي, d. 1349). A title page (f. 1r) reads as follows: هذه رسالة الأسطرلاب للشيخ الإمام العلامة زين الدين عبد الرحمن المزي الحنفي رحمه الله تعلى (!) A note in the mu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 1r-7r

10. Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab مختصر في عمل بالأسطرلاب وربع المقنطرات والربع المجيبIbn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Introductory text in three sections (فصول) on the use of the astrolabe, the astrolabe quadrant (رُبْع المُقَنْطَرات), and the sine quadrant (الرُبْع المجَيَّب) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360), timekeeper (مُوَق...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 7v-13r