Institution details
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/museum_scientific.html
Transit Equal altitude (transit) instrument by John Bird, London, ca. 1767. Taken to Newfoundland in 1769 by John Winthrop to observe the transit of Venus. | Clock Clock by Thomas Tompion, London, ca. 1675. As the most accurate clock at Harvard in 1761, this one-hundred-year old, "excellent pendulum clock" was taken to Newfoundland by John Winthrop to obser... | Quadrant, Astronomical Astronomical quadrant by Jeremiah Sisson of London ca. 1765. |
Clock, Regulator Astronomical regulator clock made in London by John Ellicott ca. 1765 to replace similar clock lost in the Harvard Hall fire of 1764. | Telescope Cassegrain reflecting telescope by James Short ca. 1758. Personal property of John Winthrop. | Telescope Reflecting telescope with heliometer engraved "James Short London," ca 1763. Gift of Nathaniel Sparhawk as donor for William Pepperell in 1769. |
Heliometer Brass Heliometer. Made by John & Peter Dollond of London, ca 1758, and shipped to Harvard by Joseph Mico in 1765. | Octant, Astronomical All brass octant. Engraved on crosspiece "B. Martin, London" and on index arm "The Gift of Ezekiel Goldthwait Esq. to the Apparatus of Harvard College in Cambridge N.E. May 1764." Given to replace ea... | Quadrant, Astronomical Quadrant engraved "J. Bird, London," ca 1764. |
