Observatory Collection (page 5)

Mount Wilson, California
150 foot tower telescope, Mt Wilson observatory, Mount Wilson, California, America

Delhi Observatory - Janter Manter. Built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur in 1710

Astronomy Herschel
George III visits Herschels observatory

Benares - Banks of the Ganges, India
Bathing on the banks of the River Ganges at Benares. This card also shows the Raja Jai Singh Observatory. The massive structure was one of a number of astronomical observatories built by Maharaja

Ordnance Survey Observatory on St. Pauls Cathedral, London
Engraving showing the observatory built on the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral by the Ordnance Survey, for their charting of London and the environs in 1848

Ordnance Survey Observatory, London, 1848
Engraving showing the interior of the observatory built on the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral by the Ordnance Survey, for their charting of London and the environs in 1848

The Crowd at Greenwich for the passing of the Great Eastern
Engraving showing the scene at the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, as huge crowds assembled to watch I.K. Brunels steamship Great Eastern steam down the River Thames, 1859

Solar Eclipse over Greenwich, London, 1858
Engraving showing the solar eclipse viewed over Greenwich, London, in March 1858. This view, as seen from the Isle of Dogs, shows the River Thames

Indian Observatory from the Medieval period, with the title Bramins Observatory

Giovanni D Cassini Oval
GIOVANNI DOMENICO CASSINI later Jean-Dominique, first Director of the Paris Observatory, who discovered four of Saturns moons between 1671 and 1684

John Radcliffe Md
JOHN RADCLIFFE - physician, though a Jacobite, attended royals William, Mary and Anne, with the proceeds funded Radcliffe Library, Infirmary and Observatory at Oxford

Jerome De Lalande - 3
JOSEPH-JEROME LE FRANCAIS DE LALANDE French astronomer, directory of Paris Observatory, catalogued nearly 50, 000 stars

William John Wills (1834-1861)
Engraving of William John Wills, the Australian surveyor and explorer, pictured in 1860. Wills was born in England and emigrated to Australia in 1852, joining the staff of Melbournes observatory

Crowd / Bourdin Funeral
Crowd versus police at the funeral of Martial Bourdin, anarchist, who died trying to blow up the Greenwich Observatory

The patent elevator and observatory
Engraving of the patent elevator and observatory showing a man being elevated into the air for viewing purposes. During the siege of Sebastopol a view of the enemys works was required

Observatory in Snow - 3
The old Observatory in winter

Observatory in Snow - 2
The old Observatory in winter

Observatory in Snow - 1
The old Observatory in winter

Greenwich / Observat. / Snow
The Greenwich Observatory in the snow

Social / Greenwich Park
Young people enjoying Greenwich Park on an Easter Monday; with the Greenwich Royal Observatory in the background

Observing Room / Greenwich
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The old observing room

Newton / St Martins Street
SIR ISaC NEWTON English scientists home and observatory at St Martins Street, Leicester Square

Greenwich Observ. 1710
The Royal Observatory in Flamsteeds time, facing east; the Thames can be glimpsed on the left

Airy / Sambourne / Punch
SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY Astronomer Royal 1835-1881, depicted with the red time ball of the Greenwich Observatory

Paris / Park / Montsouris
PARC MONTSOURIS the Observatory

Observatory / Feldhausen
Sir John Herschels Observatory at Feldhausen, Cape of Good Hope

Jan Baptist Sniadecki
JAN BAPTIST SNIADECKI Polish astronomer, director of the Wilna observatory from 1806. Brother of Jedrzej S

Observatory in Winter
The Observatory under snow

Greenwich Obs / Gt Equat
The great equatorial

Greenwich Obs / Geometrie
A view of Greenwich Observatory

Observatory Hill
People enjoy the fine weather and finer views on the long sweep of grass down from Observatory Hill In Greenwich Park

Deer on Observatory Hill
The view from Observatory Hill in Greenwich Park - with free roaming deer. The old Royal Naval College and Queens House can be seen in the distance

Greenwich Pk Observatory
Deckchairs are laid out at the Greenwich Observatory for spectators to take in the splendid view down to the River Thames

Evanston Observatory
Observatory at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Idaho, USA, showing its dome with ivy around the base

Tycho Brahe at Work
Tycho Brahe at work in his observatory at Uranienborg, Sweden 1576

Tycho Brahe & Kepler
Tycho Brahe and Kepler in discussion in the Prague Observatory

PTOLEMAIUS
Claudius Ptolemaius at Alexandria Observatory

Pyramid Observatory
Astronomer-priests of Ancient Egypt take advantage of the unique facilities of the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) using it as an observatory

Astronomy / Observatory
Professor Percival Lowell in the observatory he built at Flagstaff, Arizona

The Berlin Observatory, Germany. It was designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and opened in 1835

Peking Observatory
Cross-section of the observatory, showing globes, quadrants and other observational equipment

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