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Education Kits

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The Copernican Orrery
The Copernican Orrery
£49.00

A world premiere: the first ever fully functional cardboard orrery! It demonstrates the movements of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon around the Sun.

The Desktop Planetarium
The Desktop Planetarium
£45.00

Kit for a classical armillary sphere, the standard instrument for observer-centred astronomy for over 2000 years.

The Universal Sundial Ring
The Universal Sundial Ring
£19.00

An extremely robust and beautiful precision instrument.

The Star Dome
The Star Dome
£5.00
The Solar Projector
The Solar Projector
£29.00

This practical instrument projects the sun onto a view screen.

The Camera Obscura
The Camera Obscura
£27.00
The Newton Telescope
The Newton Telescope
£25.00

This is a kit for a fully functional Newton reflecting telescope with Dobsonian mounting.

The Historical Galileo Telescope
The Historical Galileo Telescope
£22.00

Kit for a telescope. 12x magnification.

The Galileo Telescope
The Galileo Telescope
£7.99

Galileo is famous for being the first man to point a telescope at the night sky.

The Stirling Engine
The Stirling Engine
£27.00

Yes, with this cardboard kit you can actually build a working stirling engine

The Steam Engine
The Steam Engine
£37.00
The Ferris Wheel
The Ferris Wheel
£17.00
The Wimshurst Machine
The Wimshurst Machine
£45.00
The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern
£26.00

From the 17th century on magic lanterns made a huge impression on fair ground spectators.

The PeriScope
The PeriScope
£17.00

Rugged, intricately printed cardboard kit with two unbreakable, highly polished stainless steel mirrors.

The Stardial
The Stardial
£18.00

This reconstruction of a 500 year old stardial shows the time with the help of the North Star and the Big Dipper.

The Pirate's Telescope
The Pirate's Telescope
£7.99

Very simple assembly for old salts and land lubbers alike.

The Small Galileo Telescope
The Small Galileo Telescope
£7.99

Two lenses connected by a cardboard tube: it's that simple to build a telescope!

The Solar Telescope Education Kit
The Solar Telescope Education Kit
£7.99

With this kit you can build a small telescope with 6x magnification.

The Solar Filter  Education Kit
The Solar Filter Education Kit
£8.50

A proper sun filter, allows observations of sun-spots.

The Sextant
The Sextant
£29.00

The classical instrument for measuring angles as used by sailors and discoverers.

The Magnetic Compass
The Magnetic Compass
£17.00
The Digital Sundial
The Digital Sundial
£18.00

This sundial actually shows the time in digits which are projected onto a tilting readout field.

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