History of Astronomy: Items: Instruments

• Antique Telescope Society
  • Images of old telescopes
  • A Professional Method for Cleaning Optics
• Scientific and Medical Antique Collecting Guide
  • Clocks/Sundials
  • Maps/Globes
  • Telescopes
• The Gemmary
  Dealer of antique scientific instruments and books. The catalogs are available online.
• Time & Clocks
  • Sundials

• A. Laelius Podager, Record of Discovery of Augustus's Sundial
• Sundials
  Royal Greenwich Observatory Information Leaflet No. 23
• The Tercentenary Sundial and the Greenwich Water Tanks
  Royal Greenwich Observatory Information Leaflet No. 1
• Optics instruments: Portable Sun-Dial
• History of the sundial and waterclock, by Marcia J. DeGonda
• Sonnenuhren (in German)
• Sundials [at Longwood Gardens in southeast Pennsylvania], by Lou Thieblemont
• Walter Scott Houston Memorial Sundial at Wesleyan University
• Sundial links
• Sundials: Find more documents with Alta Vista

• A Brief History of Clocks: From Thales to Ptolemy, by Jesse Weissman
  A student's course paper
• History of Clocks: Find more documents with Alta Vista

• The Astrolabe
• Astrolabes
• Astrolabes: Find more documents with Alta Vista

• The Telescope
• History of the Carter Observatory Refractor Telescope
• The Fisk Telescope, Middletown, CT, USA
• Photographs of American telescopes
• Photographs of American Schmidt telescopes
• The Lassell Telescope, Liverpool, UK
• Thomas Glazebrook Rylands and the 5" inch Cooke Telescope [at Liverpool, UK]
• Scientific Instruments [at Armagh Observatory] and Their Related Correspondence, by John McFarland
  Paper from LISA-II, ESO Garching, 10-12 May 1995
• Fysik og museum: Hauchs physiske Cabinet (Physics and Museum: Hauch's physical Cabinet), by Hemming Andersen
  Summary of a paper from "Nordisk Museologi", 1994/2, s. 31-46/47-52. This paper attempts also to present an historic perspective of the development of angle measuring instruments, including astrolabe, quadrant, octant, sextant, theodolites etc.
• History of telescopes: Find more documents with Alta Vista

• Geodesic Domes and Charts of the Heavens
  About the history of the planetarium

For descriptions of instruments see also:

• History of astronomy: Museums
• History of astronomy: Observatories and other places

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