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Brass and green leather Telescope with dragon's wings design

Brass and green leather Telescope with dragon's wings design

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1700-1799 About this object: This small hand brass telescope comes with four extendable sections. It comes with a particular green leather parchment and design patterns ressembling flowers and dragon wings.
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1788 Letter from La Perouse sent from Botany Bay

1788 Letter from La Perouse sent from Botany Bay

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 15th February 1788 About this object: This letter from Monsieur de La Perouse was sent on February 15th, 1788 from Botany Bay - as he inscripted "from New Holland" - a name given by french cartographers to Australia. The letter was r...
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Commemorative medallion for the bicentennial departure of L'Astrolabe and La Boussole from Brest

Commemorative medallion for the bicentennial departure of L'Astrolabe and La Boussole from Brest

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1985 About this object: This medallion showcases two engraved sides commemorative for the bicentennary of La Perouse's expedition, in 1985. One side represents the harbour of Brest at the departure of L'Astrolabe and La...
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Commemorative medallion of La Perouse expeditions in Alaska and Easter Island

Commemorative medallion of La Perouse expeditions in Alaska and Easter Island

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This medallion showcases two engraved sides commemorative of La Perouse's expedition. One side represents the arrival of the French crew to Easter Island on Easter day 1786, and the other side re...
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Armillary Sphere - Globe/Terrestrial

Armillary Sphere - Globe/Terrestrial

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1700-1799 About this object: This armillary sphere is constituted of several rings around the planet Earth at the centre. The rings showcases the equator, tropics and poles, as well as cardinal directions and zodiac constell...
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Dividers (Vernier Calipers)

Dividers (Vernier Calipers)

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1757 About this object: This Vernier Caliper is an example of an 18th century scientific precision measuring instrument. Its maker, Jacques Canivet, was a Parisian craftman established in Paris in his workshop at Quai d...
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Armillary Sphere - Planets and Solar System

Armillary Sphere - Planets and Solar System

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1807-1850 About this object: This armillary sphere with 3 rings is an example of a navigation instrument representing the lines of longitude, latitude and ecliptic. The centre of the sphere incude the solar system with celes...
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Butterfield sundial

Butterfield sundial

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1680-1724 About this object: This sundial is an example of a popular type of sundials at the end of the 17th century. Its maker, Michael Butterfield, was a British clock maker who settled in Paris and became engineer to the ...
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Culpeper microscope with mahogany box

Culpeper microscope with mahogany box

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1760-1799 About this object: This compound microscope is designed in the style pioneered by the English instrument maker Edmund Culpeper (1670-1737/8). The mahogany case features a brass carrying ring on the top and opens at...
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Model ship, Astrolabe (1811-1851)

Model ship, Astrolabe (1811-1851)

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This detailed ship model was constructed after L'Astrolabe on a scale of 1/50, a French vessel originally launched as La Coquille in 1811. She was commended by Louis Isidore Dupperrey on a scient... Provenance : Commissioned by Dr Ann Marie Nisbett from a specialist model maker in Mauritius
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Gregorian telescope

Gregorian telescope

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1733-1755 About this object: This reflecting telescope follows the design proposed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory in his 1663 treatise Optica Promota. It features two concave mirrors: a primary parabo...
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Borda circle with oak box

Borda circle with oak box

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1900s About this object: Known as a Borda circle, this navigational instrument is a type of reflecting circle used primarily in celestial navigation. It allows mariners to measure the angular distance between a celestial...
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Brass compass on stand

Brass compass on stand

Item Type: Museum Objects
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Engraving, Vue de Macao en Chine, Pl. 40 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Vue de Macao en Chine, Pl. 40 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Tombeaux de la Baie de Castries, Pl. 53 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Tombeaux de la Baie de Castries, Pl. 53 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Vue de St. Pierre et St. Paul au Kamtschatka, Pl. 56 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Vue de St. Pierre et St. Paul au Kamtschatka, Pl. 56 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Gros oursin de la cote du n.o. de l'Amerique, Pl. 28 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Gros oursin de la cote du n.o. de l'Amerique, Pl. 28 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Oursins de la cote du n.o. de l'Amerique, Pl. 27 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Oursins de la cote du n.o. de l'Amerique, Pl. 27 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Massacre de MM. de Langle, Lamanon et de dix autres individus des deux equipages, Pl. 66 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Massacre de MM. de Langle, Lamanon et de dix autres individus des deux equipages, Pl. 66 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Promerops de la Californie septentrionale, Pl. 37 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Promerops de la Californie septentrionale, Pl. 37 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Pirogue du Tchoka; Pirogue de l'Ile de Paque, Pl. 61 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Pirogue du Tchoka; Pirogue de l'Ile de Paque, Pl. 61 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Champan, bateau chinois; Bateau de Formose, Pl. 60 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Champan, bateau chinois; Bateau de Formose, Pl. 60 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Bateau japonais, Pl. 59 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Bateau japonais, Pl. 59 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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Engraving, Poulettes, Pl. 63 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Engraving, Poulettes, Pl. 63 of Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1980s About this object: This print is one among 30 copperplate engravings from Atlas du voyage de Lapérouse, restruck in 1980s from the original 1797 plates and gifted to La Perouse Museum by Musée de la Marine in 198... Provenance : 1980s – restruck by Musée de la Marine
1988 – donated to La Perouse Museum
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