Sydney Padua’s ‘Lovelace and Babbage’
Follow Sydney Padua’s adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, scene by scene, as they encounter mysterious goings on inside an old museum…
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- ‘The Noble Dane: Images of Tyco Brahe’
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- 1. Claudius Ptolemy, Almagest (Venice, 1515)
- 10. Astrolabe by Johann Wagner, Nuremberg, 1538
- 11. Astrolabe by Georg Hartmann (wood and paper), Nuremberg, 1542
- 12. Diptych dial by Georg Hartmann, Nuremberg, 1562
- 13. Lower leaf of a diptych dial with city view of Nuremberg, by Johann Gebhart, Nuremberg, c.1550
- 14. Peter Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum (Ingolstadt, 1540)
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- 16. Georg Joachim Rheticus, Narratio prima (Basel, 1566)
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- 19. Peter Apian and Gemma Frisius, Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1584)
- 2. Johann Stöffler, Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii (Oppenheim, 1513)
- 2. Johann Stöffler, Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii (Oppenheim, 1513)
- 20. Astrolabe (cosmographical mirror) and universal altitude sundial by Gillis Coignet, Antwerp, 1560
- 21. Altitude sundial and horary quadrant by Miniato Pitti, Florence, 1558
- 22. Astronomer’s rings by Gualterus Arsenius, Louvain, 1567
- 23. Astrolabe by Regnerus Arsenius, Louvain, 1565
- 24. Erasmus Reinhold, Prutenicæ tabulæ coelestium motuum (Tubingen, 1551)
- 25. Horary quadrant and altitude sundial by Christian Heiden, German, 1553
- 26. Diptych dial by Christian Heiden, Nuremberg, 1569
- 27. Polyhedral dial by Nicolaus Kratzer, London, c.1525
- 28. Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge (London, 1556)
- 29. Astrolabe by Thomas Gemini, London, 1559
- 3. Paper astrolabe by Peter Jordan, Mainz, 1535
- 30. Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (Nuremberg, 1602)
- 4. Armillary sphere by Carlo Plato, Rome, 1588
- 5. Celestial globe by Johann Schöner, c.1534
- 6. Johann Schöner, Globi stelliferi, sive sphaerae stellarum fixarum usus et explicationes (Nuremberg, 1533)
- 7. Johann Schöner, Tabulae astronomicae (Nuremberg, 1536)
- 8. Johann Schöner, Opera mathematica (Nuremberg, 1561)
- 9. Astrolabe by Georg Hartmann, Nuremberg, 1527
- Acknowledgements
- The Secret Life of the Museum
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- Using an Astrolabe to tell the time
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- Lot 10: BT ‘Titanic’ Phone Card, c.1995
- Lot 11: Marconi Galvanometer, mid-20th-Century
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- Lot 13: H.E. Handcock, Wireless at Sea: the First Fifty Years (Chelmsford, 1950)
- Lot 14: Photographic Print of Marconi Broadcasting on NBC
- Lot 1: Cigarette Card, Guglielmo Marconi, 1901
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