Astronomical observatories

Location used for observing celestial events

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Astronomical observatories

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Works from the collections

4 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.
J. M. W. TurnerDate: 1865Reference: 46263i
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 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/32
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Books
The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his "Machina celestis" of the method of mounting his telescopes and erecting an observatory : reprinted from an original copy / with remarks by C. Leeson Prince.
Johannes HeveliusDate: 1882