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  • Astronomical houses. Watercolour.
  • Thai Astronomical manuscripts on fortune telling
  • Hebrew astronomical diagram.
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, signed "Butterfield Paris". Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Illustrations of astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, showing the side of the instrument "Butterfield Paris". Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Description of the astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • Astronomical lecture on the new dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery : twenty-one feet in diameter.
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus, half length holding astronomical device
  • Clocks: an elaborate astronomical mantel clock. Coloured lithograph, [c.1875?].
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, signed "Butterfield Paris". Showing the opposite side of the instrument to that on which Butterfield's signature occurs. Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Clocks: the astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral, with onlookers. Lithograph, 18--.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: astronomical instruments on display. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Orthopedic traction, the Archimedes screw and astronomical instruments: seven figures. Etching, 1769.
  • Astronomy: the twelve signs of the zodiac, with other astronomical charts. Engraving.
  • A scientific or astronomical diagram . Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Copernicus and five other astronomers with astronomical instruments. Engraving by J. Mulder after G. Hoet, 1692.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments displayed on decorative stands. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments with decorative bronze dragons. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments with decorative bronze dragons. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments with decorative bronze dragons. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • A cosmological plan detailing Copernicus' astronomical vision, surrounded by diagrams of the systems of Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe ; astronomical figures line the circle. Line engraving by J.A. Fridrich after J.M. Füssli, 1732.
  • Fentazin is the ideal tranquiliser for agitation in older patients : complicated astronomical dial clock c. 1764.
  • Fentazin is the ideal tranquiliser for agitation in older patients : complicated astronomical dial clock c. 1764.
  • A female figure among astronomical apparatus: representing astronomy. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
  • A philosopher giving an astronomical lecture on an orrery. Mezzotint by W. Pether after J. Wright, ca. 1780.
  • A female figure among astronomical apparatus: representing astronomy. Etching by F.D. Née after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
  • Adam looks in wonder at the divine cosmological plan, represented above him in astronomical figures on a scroll; Eve looks at Adam. Etching.
  • The Royal Observatory, Paris: the terrace on the garden side, with men experimenting with astronomical and other scientific instruments. Etching, early eighteenth century.
  • Astronomy: Thomas Phelps (left) and John Bartlett making astronomical observations in the observatory of the Earl of Macclesfield, Oxfordshire. Mezzotint by J. Watson, 1778.