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  • The Royal Observatory, Paris: the terrace on the garden side, with men experimenting with astronomical and other scientific instruments. Etching, early eighteenth century.
  • Astronomy: a woman walking on a hillside near below Brightling Observatory, East Sussex. Engraving by W.B. Cooke, 1819, after J.M.W. Turner.
  • Astronomy: Thomas Phelps (left) and John Bartlett making astronomical observations in the observatory of the Earl of Macclesfield, Oxfordshire. Mezzotint by J. Watson, 1778.
  • The monument to John Playfair (right) and the New Observatory (left) on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Line engraving by A. Cruse after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the river front vista, with the Queens' House and Royal Observatory in the distance: many people walking about. Engraving by J. Newton after T. Lancey.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the river front vista, with the Queens' House and Royal Observatory in the distance: many people walking about. Engraving by J. Newton after T. Lancey.
  • Astronomy: a muse shows a treatise on the stars to a ruler, surrounded by putti with attributes of the arts and sciences, in the background an observatory [Greenwich?]. Engraving.
  • Top, the house where Isaac Newton was born, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire; centre, a letter written by Isaac Newton from Trinity College Cambridge, 20 June 1682; bottom, interior of the observatory in Newton's house on St. Martin's Street, London. Etching by C.J. Smith, 1836.
  • Galileo Galilei: panorama of the city of Florence seen from the Torre del Gallo (Count Galletti's museum of Galileo) outside Florence. Process print.
  • Illustrated popular lectures : man, nature, science / Frederick Addey.
  • Illustrated popular lectures : man, nature, science / Frederick Addey.
  • Illustrated popular lectures : man, nature, science / Frederick Addey.
  • Illustrated popular lectures : man, nature, science / Frederick Addey.
  • Illustrations of astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • Description of the astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving by H. Hulsbergh after C. Campbell, 1715.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving, c. 1708, by J. B. Bruhl.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving, 1699.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: with the statue of King George II in place. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving by J. Kip, 1720.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • London, seen from beside Flamsteed House in Greenwich park. Lithograph by T. S. Boys after himself, 1842.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Greenwich, with people in the foreground, London in the distance. Engraving by H. Wallis after J. Philips.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving by T. Higham, 1843, after G. Moore.
  • Oxford: cityscape view from the north. Etching by J. Whessell, 1825, after himself.
  • John Bird. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1776, after J. Lewis.
  • Astronomy: stars in the night sky, with Encke's comet. Coloured engraving by J. Basire, 1851 after C. Piazzi Smyth.