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A

Adams, George

Aguilon, Francois de

Maps of the heavens on astronomical instruments

Airy, George Biddell

Wave machines

Amici, Giovanni Battista

Apian, Peter

Images of stereographic projections

Arago, François

Wave theory

Atlas, the Titan

Maps of the heavens on astronomical instruments

Auzoux, Louis-Thomas-Jérôme

B

Baker, Henry

Banks, Robert

Charles Darwin's microscopes

Berlioz, Hector

Lissajous tuning forks: the standardization of musical sound

Betts, John

Biot, Jean Baptiste

Ernst Chladni: physicist, musician and musical instrument maker

Blake, William

Cornelius Varley: artist, astronomer, and instrument maker

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Ernst Chladni: physicist, musician and musical instrument maker

Boyle, Charles

The 'grand' orrery

Brougham, Henry

Thomas Young's wave experiments

C

Carroll, Lewis

Benjamin Martin microscope compendia

Carver, Isaac

A Gunter quadrant and practical knowledge

Casella, Louis Pascal

Amici microscopes and Thomas Romney Robinson

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico

The 'grand' orrery

Chapman, C. E.

Crystal lattice models

Chladni, Ernst

Closong, Jemmy

Public microscope shows in the 18th century

Collins, John

Constable, John

Cornelius Varley: artist, astronomer, and instrument maker

Copernicus, Nicholas

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

Crisp, Frank

Cuff, John

Culpeper, Edmund

Cuvier, George

Auzoux's animal models

D

d'Arezzo, Guido

Monochord: an ancient musical and scientific instrument

Dalton, John

Dancer, John Benjamin

A collection of John Benjamin Dancer microphotographs

Darwin, Charles

Dillon Weston, William

Divini, Eustachio

A Dutch pioneer: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Donders, Franz

Helmholtz's apparatus for the synthesis of sound: an electrical 'talking machine'

E

Eco, Umberto

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

Edison, Thomas Alva

Stroh's automatic phonograph: a 19th century 'talking machine'

Euclid

Wooden geometric models made by George Adams

F

Faraday, Michael

Michael Faraday's microscope slide

Fine, Oronce

A ship-shaped sundial, dated 1620

Fiorentino, Mauro

Armillary spheres and teaching astronomy

Flaubert, Gustave

Human models

Folkes, Martin

John Mayall and reproductions of early microscopes

Fourier, François

Herman von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

Franklin, Benjamin

Ernst Chladni: physicist, musician and musical instrument maker

Fresnel, Augustin

G

Gagniard de la Tour, Charles

The siren: a source of musical sound for experiments

Gassiot, John Peter

Amici microscopes and Thomas Romney Robinson

Graaf, Regnerus de

A Dutch pioneer: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Graham, George

The 'grand' orrery

Grubb, Sir Howard

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Gunter, Edmund

A Gunter quadrant and practical knowledge

H

Haeckel, Ernst

Foetus models

Handel, George Frideric

Historical notes: a brief chronicle of the tuning fork

Hardcastle, Joseph

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Harris, Phillip

The siren: a source of musical sound for experiments

Hartley, G. S.

Space-filling models

Harvey, Thomas

Harvey, William

Fish-plates and frog-plates: live examination under the microscope

Henslow, George

The Henslows: two generations of Cambridge botanists

Henslow, John Stevens

Herbert, John Maurice

Charles Darwin's microscopes

Herschel, John

Trombone de Koenig: apparatus for sound interference experiments

Herschel, Sir John

A projecting planetarium

Herschel, William

Hofmann, Wilhelm August

Ball and spoke models

Holbein, Hans

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

Hooke, Robert

Horenbout, Lucas

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

Huygens, Christiaan

J

Jurin, James

The earliest measurements of microscopic objects

K

Keith, Thomas

A projecting planetarium

Kepler, Johannes

King George II

George Lindsay's royal microscope

King George III

King Henry VIII

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

Koenig, Karl Rudolph

Rudolph Koenig: the pursuit of acoustic perfection

Koenig, Rudolph

Kohl, Max

The siren: a source of musical sound for experiments

Kratzer, Nicholas

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

L

Lason, George

A Gunter quadrant and practical knowledge

Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van

Le Mesurier, R. A.

A projecting planetarium

Lindsay, George

Lissajous, Jules

Lister, Joseph Jackson

The problems with lenses, and the 19th-century solution

Lyell, Charles

Thomas Sopwith's geological teaching models

M

MacKenzie, James Stuart

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Maclaurin, Colin

A James Short telescope

Maguire, J. H.

The Henslows: two generations of Cambridge botanists

Malpighi, Marcelo

Mantell, Gideon

Thomas Sopwith's geological teaching models

Marlowe, Christopher

Public microscope shows in the 18th century

Marryat, Howard

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Martin, Benjamin

Maxwell, James Clerk

Thomas Young's wave experiments

Mayall, John

Mogg, Edward

Learning with dissectable paper globe kits

Morden, Robert

A brief history of globes

Moxon, James

An immobile globe, designed by the Earl of Castlemaine and Joseph Moxon

Moxon, Joseph

N

Newton, Isaac

P

Palmer, James

An immobile globe, designed by the Earl of Castlemaine and Joseph Moxon

Palmer, Roger

Peurbach, Georg von

A ship-shaped sundial, dated 1620

Poblacion, Johannes Martinus

A 14th-century English astrolabe

Pope, Alexander

Public microscope shows in the 18th century

Powell, Baden

Wave machines

Power, Henry

A brief history of the microscope

Priestley, Joseph

A brief history of globes

Prince Albert

Michael Faraday's microscope slide

Prince Frederick, son of King George II

George Lindsay's royal microscope

Ptolemy

Pythagoras

Monochord: an ancient musical and scientific instrument

Q

Queen Victoria

Thomas Sopwith's geological teaching models

R

Ramsden, Jesse

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Regiomontanus

A ship-shaped sundial, dated 1620

Robinson, Thomas Romney

Amici microscopes and Thomas Romney Robinson

Rossini, Gioachino

Lissajous tuning forks: the standardization of musical sound

Rowley, John

The 'grand' orrery

Rubens, Peter Paul

Maps of the heavens on astronomical instruments

Ruhmkorff, Heinrich

Amici microscopes and Thomas Romney Robinson

S

Sacrobosco

Armillary spheres and teaching astronomy

Saunderson, Nicholas

A miniature portrait of Nicholas Kratzer, the King's astronomer

Scheibler, Johann

Historical notes: a brief chronicle of the tuning fork

Schissler, Cristoph

Astronomical compendia

Sekiya, Seikei.

A Japanese earthquake model

Shore, John

Historical notes: a brief chronicle of the tuning fork

Short, James

A James Short telescope

Sisson, Jonathan

George Lindsay's royal microscope

Smith, James

Sopwith, Thomas

Thomas Sopwith's geological teaching models

Speidell, Euclid

The 'incomparable' Mr. Sutton: a famous 17th-century instrument maker

Spencer, George

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Stirrup, Thomas

Maps of the heavens on astronomical instruments

Stone, Edmund

The 'incomparable' Mr. Sutton: a famous 17th-century instrument maker

Stroh, J. M. Augustus

Stroh's automatic phonograph: a 19th century 'talking machine'

Stuart, John

Two late 18th-century telescopes

Sutton, Henry

T

Tennant, James

Thomas Sopwith's geological teaching models

Tompion, Thomas

The 'grand' orrery

Tuckwell, Rev. W.

Plant models

Tulley, William

The problems with lenses, and the 19th-century solution

V

Varese, Edgar

The siren: a source of musical sound for experiments

Varley, Cornelius

Varley, John

Cornelius Varley: artist, astronomer, and instrument maker

Vermeer, Johannes

Two Leeuwenhoek-type Microscopes

Vitruvius

Maps of the heavens on astronomical instruments

Volkmer, Tobias

Astronomical compendia

von Helmholtz, Herman

von Helmholtz, Hermann

Historical notes: a brief chronicle of the tuning fork

Vuillaume, Jean Baptise

Historical notes: a brief chronicle of the tuning fork

Vuillaume, Jean Baptiste

Rudolph Koenig: the pursuit of acoustic perfection

W

Wallis, John

The Sutton-type quadrant

Wheatstone, Charles

Whethamstede, John

A ship-shaped sundial, dated 1620

Whipple, Robert

Wilson, James

Wright, Joseph

The 'grand' orrery

Y

Young, Thomas

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