Narratives

Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925

SECOND ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1925 OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT OF THE LEWIS EVANS COLLECTION

Under "Collections on Loan"

"The most important of the College collections now lent for exhibition with the Lewis Evans Collection is the one associated with the name of Lord Orrery, great-nephew to Robert Boyle. The greater part of his instruments were made between 1690 and 1710, and an inventory of them was taken by the celebrated maker of mathematical instruments, Thomas Wright, in 1731, when they were transferred to Christ Church. The instruments in this collection illustrate in a unique manner the nature of the best instruments available for the study of Natural Philosophy in England at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. The ready comparison of the astronomical models in the Orrery Collection with pneumatic and electrical apparatus that took their place in the Oriel Collection a century later affords a most striking object-lesson of the advance of science in the eighteenth century."

Other Non-Orrery Collection items also came to the Museum on loan from Christ Church, but are not specifically mentioned, eg a Cuff-Type Compound Microscope, by Dollond, London, c. 1761.

Other narratives:

• Inventory no. 19978 - Former Display Label
• Pair of planetaria
• Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory
• Orrery Collection in print
• 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, "Alidade, English, c. 1696" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18184, "Plane Table by John Worgan, London, c. 1696" [1925-43], Worgan, John
• Inventory No. 18184, "Ball and Socket Joint, 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. 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. 28877.2, "Weight for Worm-Jack, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• 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. 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. 36677, "Cuff-Type Microscope with Screw-Barrel Microscope and Accessories, by George Adams, London, Mid 18th Century" [1925-43?], Adams, George
• Inventory No. 47114, "Cuff-Type Compound Microscope, by Dollond, London, c. 1761 with Case and Accessories" [1925-43?], Dollond
• 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. 52163, "Degree Plate For Pendulum Clock, by B. J. Vulliamy, English, 1838" [1976-30], Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis
• 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. 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. 20028, "Steelyard, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 30120, "Tools, English?, c. 1700?" [1925-43]