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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Napier's Bones

1690

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

1520-1530

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Table clock by Nicholas Vallin

1598-1603

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Hooke's compound microscope, copy, 1665-1675.

1665-1675

Pharmacy storage jar depicting St John the Baptist

1501-1600

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630