Instruments

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Adler Planetarium - Historical Collections - Collection of instruments, past exhibitions, history department information..

Antique Telescopes - An overview with photographs of many lesser known telescopes typical of their time..

The Astrolabe - Ancient astronomical computer..

Caltech Astronomy - History - The telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Palomar..

Churches as Scientific Instruments - Solar observatories built into 17th and 18th century cathedrals..

The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor - Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs..

Sir Martin Ryle - Nobel Lecture - Radio telescopes of large resolving power..

400th Anniversary of the Invention of the telescope - Circumstances of the invention, instructions for making a model, and commemorative events in Middelburg, the Netherlands. [Dutch and English].

Virtual Museum of Measuring Engines - The history of modern astronomical measurement, emphasis on instruments..

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