Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

Astronomical observatories

Part of
Observatories
Observatories

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections

Images from the collections

Images about Astronomical observatories

1 image from works
  • Astronomy: a woman walking on a hillside near below Brightling Observatory, East Sussex. Engraving by W.B. Cooke, 1819, after J.M.W. Turner.

Works from the collections

6 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Astronomy: a woman walking on a hillside near below Brightling Observatory, East Sussex. Engraving by W.B. Cooke, 1819, after J.M.W. Turner.

    Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 | Date: 1865 | Reference: 46263i
    • Books

    British university observatories, 1772-1939 / Roger Hutchins.

    Hutchins, Roger, 1946- | Date: [2008], ©2008
    • Books

    Sawai Jai Singh and his astronomy / Virendra Nath Sharma.

    Sharma, Virendra Nath. | Date: 1995
    • Books

    International Symposium on the Observatories in Islam, 19-23 September, 1977 : [proceedings] / edited by Muammer Dizer.

    International Symposium on the Observatories in Islam (1977 : Istanbul, Turkey) | Date: 1980
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001840: Reproduction of Roger Bacon in his observatory at Merton College, Oxford, an oil painting by Ernest Board

    | Date: April 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/32
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 20:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence