Entries from National Maritime Museum collections blog tagged with 'Royal Observatory'
Navigating culture, 1550-1650
I am a doctoral student at Cambridge University and recently undertook a summer internship at the Royal Observatory. My internship project studied navigational instruments as cultural artefacts - as objects which illuminate the attitudes and beliefs of those who made,...
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Posted by Richard Blakemore, ROG intern on October 16, 2009 10:47 AM
Flickr meet at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
On 11th February 2009 the NMM hosted a Flickr meet, through the Flickr Commons group, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG). Our intrepid Flickr Commons followers braved the wind and rain, not to mention the hill, to join us...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on February 12, 2009 12:35 PM
Printmakers and star-gazers
In 2009 the Museum celebrates the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), which commemorates the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo in 1609 as well as, amongst other things, the first moon landing (1969). It is hoped that...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on January 23, 2009 10:39 AM
Latest 'Gallery Favourites' available online
We've launched a new series of 'Gallery Favourites' online! 'Gallery Favourites' is a popular series of talks, presented by the Museum's Gallery Assistants, discussing objects from the Museum's collection that intrigue them. In this new series Bill Allan tells the...
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Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on December 5, 2008 2:08 PM
Happy birthday to the telescope
This month is the telescope's 400th birthday. Well, sort of. We know that in September 1608 an optician called Hans Lipperhey announced that he had invented a new device and asked for a patent from the Dutch States-General. Before then...
Posted by Richard Dunn, Curator of History of Navigation on September 15, 2008 11:24 AM
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich: a house of science or a scientific house?
Beginning from top left, clockwise: the old Flamsteed House, in front of it the Astrographic (round) dome, and the drum dome of Airy's altazimuth; the onion-shape dome containing the 28-inch refractor; the wooden Magnetic Observatory and a library to...
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Posted by Pedro Raposo, Royal Observatory Summer Intern on September 10, 2008 10:27 AM
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