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Heveliuss TelescopeThe great 200 foot (60+ metres) telescope of Hevelius
E Torricelli / TombaEVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer
Female Type / Crochet CapAll the nice girls love a sailor especially this young woman whose decided to crochet herself a cap to let everyone know which is her favourite armed service
Les Exiles De LA TerreLES EXILES DE LA TERRE (Andre Laurie) Exiled on the Moon, a man gazes at Earth through his telescope and wishes he was back there again
Greenwich Park / TelescopeSightseers use a telescope to get the best view of Greenwich from Greenwich Park
Mathias LaensberghMATHIAS LAENSBERGH Flemish mathematician and astrologer
Observing Room / GreenwichGREENWICH OBSERVATORY The old observing room
Canadian CadetsCanadian cadets in action at a shooting competition at Bisley
Fw Herschel / Euro Magsir FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer
Telescope discoveryJacob Metzu, lensmaker of Middelburg, discovers principle of telescope when his son plays with lenses. Oddly, his fellow-townsman Lippershey does precisely the same
Ross / Magnetic PoleJohn Rosss arctic expedition: Ross planting the British Standard on the true position of the Magnetic Pole
Leaving a Plane 1960SPassengers alighting from a BEA Bristol Britannia aeroplane, watched by friends and relatives
NAPOLEON I Gulliver (George III and Napoleon)
Lippershey / World InventHANS LIPPERSHEY or LIPPERSHEIM Dutch spectacle maker, credited with invention of the telescope (1608)
George V / Vfair 1911GEORGE V the year after he became king
E Torricelli / World InvenEVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer Date: 1608 - 1647
18th Century Naval UnifNaval Officers and Seamen of the 18th century
C18 AdmiralAn admiral on his quarter- deck, telescope at the ready
Claude Chappe / Sch CardCLAUDE CHAPPE French engineer, invented a telegraph system using visual semaphore signals
Chicago Exhibition - 7The Yerkes telescope is an impressive exhibit at the Chicago Exhibition, 1893
Foucaults TelescopeLeon Foucaults telescope, constructed in Paris by Secretan
Herschel / Telescope / 1863William Herschels 40 foot telescope as it was in 1863, Herschel House, Slough
Great Moon HoaxTHE GREAT MOON HOAX A scene of life on the Moon, alleged to have been observed by Herschel through his telescope; it was a journalists fabrication
Boer / Rhodes at KimberleyCecil Rhodes watching the effect of the Long Cecil gun on the enemy trenches
Transit of VenusA diagram illustrating the visible transit of Venus across the Sun
Festival Radio TelescopeThe huge " Radio Telescope", visible for miles, a futuristic lighthouse for projecting messages to the moon. It was actually the Shot Tower, an old London landmark
Rhino and TelescopeA bird invites the rhinoceros to examine the heavens through his telescope
Naval Lieutenant & BoyA Lieutenant and a Signal Boy who holds a telescope to help make out the flags on distant ships
Megnie / Telescope / DiderotMegnies Equatorial telescope
Nairn / Telescope / DiderotNairns equatorial telescope
Looking at the MoonA group of amateur astronomers look through a telescope at the moon and see a face in it (illustration to the fable, An animal in the moon )
Observing VenusAstronomy at the Place du Chatelet in Paris. Street stargazers observe the planet Venus through a telescope
Street Telescope Exhibitor A young boy steps up for a telescopic view of the moon
Galileo / Telescope / StudyGalileo calculates the magnification of his telescope
Galileo / Jupiter`s SatelGalileo shows the satellites of Jupiter to Venetian senators
Napoleon / Horse Ali 1800NAPOLEON I riding Ali, at the battle of Marengo, 14 June 1800
Nautical / NavigationLook-out man from the crow s- nest during Wordenskjolds Arctic expedition
Churchill / Admiralty / 1914WINSTON CHURCHILL British statesman and author as First Lord of the Admiralty in a pose reminiscent of Horatio, Lord Nelson Date: 1874 - 1965
G Washington / TuckerGEORGE WASHINGTON First president of the United States as a general
Edward Vii / Boning & SmalEDWARD VII, BRITISH ROYALTY as PRINCE OF WALES in nautical garb wearing a bargee hat, and holding a telescope
Battenberg / Prince LouisPrince Louis Alexander of Battenberg in Naval Dress
Telescope, Paris 1899Giant telescope exhibited at the Paris Exposition
Jesuit missionaries with telescopes in Siam (Thailand)Jesuit missionaries in Siam (Thailand) impress the king with their telescopes
Newtons reflecting telescopeSir Isaac Newtons reflecting telescope
Christian Huygens, Dutch scientistChristian (or Christiaan) Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, horologist and astronomer, notable for his contributions to telescopes and to the nature of light
Futuristic helicopter sentinelA futuristic scene showing a helicopter pilot with a telescope, acting as a sentinel of the skies. A beam of light shines on him from a distant tower
Telescope, JapanJapanese amazed !