Narratives

Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory

An Inventory of the Mathematticall Instrumts: in the Library of the Rt Honble: ye Earl of Orrery Deceast.

In the Small Room

[1] Two Wire Spheres
[2m] A Magick Lanthorn Six Figures
[3] A Dialling Sphere
[4] A Small Quadrant of Ivory on a Pedestall
[5] A Three inch Ball on a Pedestall
[6] A Micrometer
[7] Two Brass Spheres one according to Copernicus the Other according to Ptolemy
[8] A Microscope on a Stand
[9] A Concave Glass on a Stand 10 Inch: Diamtr
[10] A Brass Globe in a Frame & Stand 5 or 6 Inch: Diamtr
[11] A Silver Sphere in a Lignum Vitae Case
[12] A Small Reflecting Tellescope on a Stand New Fashion
[13]x A Pair of 3 Inch Globes wh Brass Horrisons & frames in a Case

In the next Room

[14] A Vellom Tellescope 8 feet long
[15] A Strong Staff wh a Ball & Socket & Balls to ye 3 Leggs
[16] A Square Wooden Tellescope 7 Foot. ½ Shutt brass ends
[17] One Dtto 5 Foot. ½ Shutt Wooden Ends

In the Great Room the first Drawer

[18] A Small Plane Table, Ball & Socket, & a brass Index & Sights
[19m] An Ivory Compass Box
[20] A Pr of Proportionable Compss, Silver in a Shagreen Case
[21] A Square 6 Inch Silver Rule, a pr of Compss. of Silver at one End, a Pencell att the Other End
[22] A nine Inch Ivory Sliding Gunter
[23] A Box Scale
[24] A Small Box wh 9 peices of Brass I believe Relating to Gunnery
[25m] Two Magnifying Glass wh Handles
[26] A Small Microscope of Ivory
[27] A Silver Tellescope eight Inches Shutt
[28m] One Dtto: of Fishskin wh Ivory Ends 2 Feet
[29] Four other Prospects 3 wh Silver ends one without [one only, others m]
[30] A Compound Machine on a Stand wh ye 3 Weights

The Second Drawer

[31] A Spirit Levell in a Fishskin Case
[32] A Sky Optick
[33]x A Loadstone Sett in Silver 2 Inches Square
[34] A Silver Case of Instrumts 4 Inch. ½ wh a Small Sector two pr of Compass & ye poynts & Drawing pen in a Plain Shagreen Case
[35] A Brass Scale in a Case
[36] A Round Level of Brass
[37] A Suttons Quadrant on Board

The Third Drawer

[38] Two Small Cammora Obscura one of Vellom [one only, other m]
[39] A Sett of Small Microscopes & Objects
[40] A Small pr of Scales in a Case
[41] A 4 Inch. ½ inch Suttons Quadrant of Brass
[42] A Small pr of Handvice & a Gun Tooll
[43] A Sett of Sollid Bodys in Box
[44] A Brass Stilliard Beam

The Fourth Drawer

[45ab & 46ab] A Fishskin Case with a 9 Inch Ivory Sector Silver Joynt, an Ivory Scale with a Silver peice to Slide along A Parrellel Rule an Ivory Protractor, & a Sett of Compses [latter m]
[47m] Two Silver Sectors 1, 6 Inch ye Other 3 Inch french
[48] Three Pulleys a Single, Double & Treble of Brass
[49] Two Brass Semicircles
[50] A Brass head of a Staff, & a Ball & Sockett

The above Inventory was taken by Tho Wright Mathematicall Instrumt Maker Sept 17th 1731

[x = in these two instances an x is marked in the left margin, implying it was missing at an early date or perhaps even on arrival at ChCh
m = additional items missing when Gunther reported on the collection about 1920]

[the numbering is Gunther's; the original document is at Christ Church]

Other narratives:

• Inventory no. 19978 - Former Display Label
• Pair of planetaria
• Orrery Collection in print
• Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925
• Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments
• Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection

Related Objects:

• Inventory No. 14209, "Terrestial Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1725" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 14260, "Concave Black Marble Disc, for Lens Polishing?, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 14776, "Sector, Attributed to Elias or John Allen, London, c. 1620-30" [1925-43], Allen, Elias
• Inventory No. 14946, "Rectangular Protractor, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 15386, "Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 15472, "Simple Theodolite, by John Worgan, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Worgan, John
• Inventory No. 16400, "Plotting Scale, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 16699, "Circular Bubble Spirit Level, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 17260, "Screwbarrel Microscope, with Compass Microscope and Accessories, by James Wilson?, English, c. 1706" [1925-43], Wilson, James
• Inventory No. 17420, "Graphometer, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 17611, "Parallel Ruler, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 17724, "Hyperbolic Curves Template, by Nairne & Blunt, London, c. 1760" [1925-43], Nairne & Blunt
• Inventory No. 18126, "Compound Microscope, by John Marshall, London, c. 1715" [1925-43], Marshall, John
• Inventory No. 18184, "Plane Table by John Worgan, London, c. 1696" [1925-43], Worgan, John
• Inventory No. 18184, "Alidade, English, c. 1696" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18872, "Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1720" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18922, "Set of Drawing Instruments, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 19978, "Copernican Planetarium, Attributed to John Rowley, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 20020, "Gregorian Reflecting Telescope with Stand, English, c. 1710" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 20028, "Steelyard, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 20795, "Pulley Blocks, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 21777, "Set of Geometric Solids, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 22252, "Copernican Armillary Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 22258, "Copernican Armillary Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 22318, "Telescope Micrometer Eyepiece, English, c. 1710" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 22409, "Globe and Accessories, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 22764, "Spirit Level, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 23106, "Gunter's Sector, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 23264, "Pair of Convex and Concave Mirrors in Mount, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 23348, "Globe, English?, Early 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 23976, "Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1690" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 24303, "Trigonometrical Demonstration Spheres, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 25257, "Quadrant, by Henry Sutton, London, 1658" [1925-43], Sutton, Henry
• Inventory No. 25400, "Globe, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 26114, "Quadrant, by Henry Sutton, London, 1660" [1925-43], Sutton, Henry
• Inventory No. 26702, "Circular Protractor, by J. Sisson, London, c. 1730" [1925-43], Sisson, J.
• Inventory No. 27956, "Slide Rule, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 28201, "Proportional Compasses, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John, Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 28299, "Dotchin, Far East, 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 28877.1, "Worm-Jack, Attributed to John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 28955, "Perspective Glass Telescope, English, c. 1725" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 29239, "Plane-Table Alidade, English, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 29666, "Refracting Telescope, by John Marshall, London, c. 1715" [1925-43], Marshall, John
• Inventory No. 29920, "Refracting Telescope by James Wilson, London, c.1700" [1925-43], Wilson, James
• Inventory No. 29920, "Tripod" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 30120, "Tools, English?, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 30151, "Ruler with Pencil and Dividers, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 30371, "Semi-Elliptical Trammel with Case, by Joseph Jackson, London, Early 18th Century" [1925-43], Jackson, Joseph
• Inventory No. 30371, "Case for Semi-Elliptic Trammel" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 30755, "Pocket Balance, English?, Early 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 30819, "Set of Microscope Slides, by James Wilson?, English, c. 1704" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 31785, "Quadrant, by J. Rowley, English, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 31922, "Dialling Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 32319, "Parallelogram Protractor, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 35757, "Terrestrial Globe Signed by Richard Cushee, London, c. 1731" [1925-43], Cushee, Richard
• Inventory No. 35757, "Orrery, by Thomas Wright, London, c. 1731" [1925-43], Wright, Thomas, Cushee, Richard
• Inventory No. 47160, "Gunner's Rule, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 50368, "Set of Military Tokens for Demonstrating Battalion Firing, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 57576, "Gunter Chain, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 68353, "Ptolemaic Planetarium, Attributed to John Rowley, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 28877.2, "Weight for Worm-Jack, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 74169, "Plotting Scale, 5-inch, by S. Horseman, English, Early 18th Century" [1925-43], Horseman, S.
• Inventory No. 75945, "Camera Obscura, English, c. 1710" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 78216, "Scioptric Ball or Sky Optick, English?, Early 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 80777, "Pulley Wheel, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18184, "Ball and Socket Joint, English, c. 1696" [1925-43]