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Pencil sketch of old Marischal College. A large rectangular building with four floors. It has a stone archway containing big wooden doors, large rectangular windows and blocks of chimneys. Adjoining the building is a rectangular tower with seven floors which has a round turret running up the side.
Pencil sketch attached to paper backing paper with title 'Front view of Old Marischal College, by Alexander Stuart, early 19th century.
Pencil sketch of a classroom in old Marischal College. A tall ceilinged room with five long wooden desks and benches, a lectern, a fireplace, a simple chandelier and a large window with shutters in an arched alcove.
Pencil sketch of a classroom in old Marischal College, from an album of exterior and interior views of the building.
Proportional compasses. A pair of long brass rectangles with numbers inscribed up their length, each with a long steel point at one end a short point at the other. They are screwed together with an ornate knob.
Brass with steel points, wooden box, signed ' C. Lunan '.
Clock movement. A small brass contraption consisting of wheels, cogs, plates, and a spring.
Spring clock and movement for demonstrating the reduction of sound in vacuum; pounds 6.6.0. Brass. Some form of 'scale' behind escapement wheel, part of an old compass dial, although no pointer evident. Fancy key, handle heart-shaped and engraved on…
Table compass. A compass, eleven centimetres wide, in an octagonal wooden frame with a glass cover bordered by brass. The compass needle sits above a disc of paper printed with an anthropomorphic sun in the centre and directions and degrees around the edge.
Octagonal plane table compass. Paper card marked with compass points and in quadrantal degrees brass scale marked 0 - 360. Octagonal mahogany frame with key flap for table. Paper label underneath 'The property of the University of Aberdeen'. Embedded…
Achromatic telescope. Long brass telescope with smaller viewfinder telescope on a tall mahogany stand with three legs.
'Dollond's achromatic telescope of two and three quarter inch aperture and 4 feet focus, with polar axis, on a mahogany stand, 2 astronomical and 1 terrestrial eyepiece and a divided object glass micrometer.' The instrument in the University's…
Dr. Lorimer's dipping compass. An octagonal wooden box from out of which projects four intersecting brass rings perpendicular to each other and incised with degree scales. Suspended in the innermost ring, which is oriented upright, is a needle which can rotate freely inside the ring.
Instrument for showing that a compass needle not only points to magnetic north but if freely suspended will point into the ground. This later phenomenon is known as the 'dip' of the compass needle. Horizontal scale 0 -90 in 1/20 on either side of N…
Azimuth compass. A compass with a rotatable ring-shaped brass frame around it mounted on a heavy brass stand. The frame is marked with degree scales. Four removable rectangular plates of brass, each with a rectangular hole, a slit and three small circular holes in them, project vertically from the frame equidistant from one another.
Azimuth compass in wooden box with lid and lock and key . Brass scales. 4 sights are detachable - 2 fit on rotating compass ring and 2 on meridional line. Each sight has a slit and a cross wire one above the other. Box has inset disc ' Univ. Abdn.…
Metal hearts. A wooden box with five heart shaped cavities inside which are an iron, a copper, a brass and a lead heart. One is missing.
Unsigned but very similar to the specimen in the George III collection. Complete with ivory-sided compass with transparent base. Hinged box has cut-outs for five metal hearts, only four are contained in the box. Various non magnetic metals. Gold…
Equatorial telescope. A brass telescope mounted on a set of large, ornate brass wheels with finely graduated scales on them.
Universal equatorial instrument. 18th century instrument for positional measurement of stars with telescope mounted on an equatorial mount having finely graduated scales. Brass with 18" circles. Originally made by Sisson. Afterwards divided anew,…