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A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 16379iPart of: Caricatures politiques
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Reflecting telescopes pre.1835
Thomas Morton
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John Dolland, after picture in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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Mrs Margaret Bryan with her two daughters, about them various pieces of astronomical equipment. Engraving by W. Nutter after S. Shelley.
Shelley, Samuel, approximately 1750-1808.Reference: 544393i- Archives and manuscripts
Arago, Dominique François (1786-1853)
Arago, Dominique François, 1786-1853.Date: c. 1840, c. 1850Reference: MS.967
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Astronomy: a large telescope, at Greenwich Observatory. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 46255i
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M0009414: Astronomical telescope with equatorial mount
Date: 18 March 1946Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/82/81Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Malta: Royal Naval Hospital or Bighi Hospital, with sailors dancing on the shore. Coloured pen and ink drawing by J. Parker, 1843, after C.F. de Brocktorff, ca. 1819 (?).
Brocktorff, Charles Frederick, 1775-1850.Date: 1843Reference: 18259i
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Mr. Gray's School, Westminster: the interior. Lithograph by J. Miller.
Miller, J. (Lithographer)Reference: 40176i
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Optics: the principle of multi-lens telescopes. Engraving.
Reference: 47040i
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Astronomy: British preparations in Rodrigues Island for observing the transit of Venus, 1874. Wood engraving after T. Sulman, 1874, after C.E. Burton and W.A. Moore.
Date: 1874Reference: 46235i
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M0009412: Large refracting telescope
Date: 18 March 1946Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/82/79Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A young woman is standing on a beach looking out to sea through a telescope which she is resting on the shoulder of a Catholic priest. Wood engraving after P. Thumann.
Thumann, Paul, 1834-1908.Reference: 33239i
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Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, looking out of the window with a telescope. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
Wale, Samuel, -1786.Reference: 46334i
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Astronomy: Thomas Phelps (left) and John Bartlett making astronomical observations in the observatory of the Earl of Macclesfield, Oxfordshire. Mezzotint by J. Watson, 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 46328i
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Simon Marius [Mayr]. Woodcut.
Date: 1614Reference: 6202i- Pictures
A young man, 'Sir Fopling Flutter' ogles women through a lens while a bailiff serves him a writ. Mezzotint, 1769, by J. Dixon after himself.
Dixon, John, 1720-1804.Date: 1769Reference: 16317i
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M0009420: Large refracting telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland
Date: 18 March 1946Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/82/87Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Vim you see in sizes three, every size saves L.s.d / Lever Brothers Limited.
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
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M0009425: Temporary mounting of an achromatic refracting telescope
Date: 18 March 1946Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/82/92Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A Greenwich Pensioner, on Greenwich Hill, showing trippers the view with a telescope, and offering clay pipes for sale (?). Wood engraving.
Reference: 32768i- Books
Novae cœlestium terrestriumq[ue] rerum observationes. Et fortasse hactenus non vulgatæ / à Francisco Fontana, specillis à se inventis, et ad summam perfectionem perductis, editæ.
Fontana, Francesco, 1580-approximately 1656.Date: 1646
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A female figure among astronomical apparatus: representing astronomy. Etching by F.D. Née after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790.Date: 1773Reference: 25683i
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The economy of the eyes / by William Kitchiner.
Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.Date: 1826
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French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 6 March 1799Reference: 18129i