Subject: Astronomical instruments - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8086, ff 77v-106r
Title:: Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
Scope & Content:: A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1870
Extent:: Ff. 77v-106r

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(90)
Title:: Magnificent bronze astronomical instruments made in 1674 under Emperor Kanghi, Imperial Observatory, Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 2(409)
Title:: [Lansdown Crescent, Bath.] Photographer: Story-Maskeyne, Nevil
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Georgian crescent taken from one end of the side railings, a telescope is visible on the central roof. Chemistry brush-applied on paper 188 x 229 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jan 1847
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: X.1067, 2(589)
Title:: Heliostat and other instruments; Dubosq Soleil. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:: Arrnagement of a heliostat and several other scientific instruments: 'Dubosq-Soleil (France, has exhibited Silberman's heliostat … [He] has also exhibited a saccharometer … Bravais' haloscope, for the exhibition of all the phenomenae connected with halos, parhelions, etc. ... besides these ... a...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1851
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: X.1250(15)
Title:: Observatoire de Nice. Sous-sol du Gd. Equatorial (Installation du Pendule). Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the basement of the Great Equatorial Telescope building, with scientific instruments in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1887
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: X.1250(16)
Title:: Observatoire de Nice. Grande Méridienne. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography View of astronomical equipment in the observatory.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1887
Extent:: 1 item

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