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Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Whole model, full rigged, of ship of the line, H.M.S. 'Prince'

Water Transport

1670

Wooden acupuncture model

Asian Medicine

1681

Napier's bones

Mathematics

1671-1700

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

Navigation

1675-1700

Cupellation furnace

Metallurgy

1696-1700

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

Clockmakers

1675-1685

wheel cutting machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1668-1672 Probable

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Telescope by John Yarwell.

Optics

1685-1695

Cylindrical form of Napier's bones

Mathematics

c. 1700

Spring clock with pull quarter-repeat by Thomas Tompion

Clockmakers

1700

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

Clockmakers

1671

Telescope by John Marshall

Optics

1685-1695

Longcase clock movement by Thomas Bradford c. 1692

Clockmakers

1690-1695

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

Clockmakers

1692

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

Firefighting

1680

Handheld reading lens and case

Optics

1680-1700

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

Clockmakers

1685

Silver and leather pair-cased verge watch by Charles Gretton

Clockmakers

1690

Silver and tortoiseshell pair-cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

Clockmakers

1675

Verge watch by Peter Debaufre with later modification by Alexander Cumming, London

Clockmakers

1700

Pair-cased verge watch by Anna Adamson

Clockmakers

1685

Spring clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

Clockmakers

1675

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

.Unattributed

1697

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Tenmon Bun’ya no zu (map showing divisions of the heavens and regions they govern)

Astronomy

1677

Spring-driven pendulum clock by Johannes van Ceulen of The Hague, c. 1695

Time Measurement

1670-1680

Ivory and horn anatomical model of the eye, Italy, 1674

Ophthalmology

1674

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Sundial and compass with perpetual calendar and lunar circles

Time Measurement

1677

Simple theodolite, Italian, 1676

Surveying

1676

Engraving of the Oxford Physic Garden, England, 1675

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1675

Surveying quadrant, 1674.

Surveying

1674

Clay tobacco pipe by Henry Norman, made in Hull, 1

Smoking

1670-1690

Bedpan

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-180

Musschenbroek hand microscope, Netherlands, 1671-1700

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1671-1700

Wooden Cross-staff.

Navigation

1687

Memento mori ring, United Kingdom, 1692

Wellcome (general)

1692

John Yarwell

Art

1683

Coconut goblet mounted in silver, York, England, 1671-1700

Surgery

1671-1700

Verge watch in inner and outer case

Time Measurement

1700

Works of clock (dated 1671) removed from St. Giles

Time Measurement

1671

Horn framed reading lens with tooled leather case

Optics

1680-1695

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

Astronomy

1686-1691
Pair-cased verge escapement watch by Benjamin Wolverstone, London, c.1670. Silver dial with gilt engraved border and silver hour ring. In the centre of the dial is a silver alarm disk with steel pointer; the centre of this is filled with red wax. Steel hand with long tail. Oval balance-cock without rim. Worm and wheel set-up regulator with openwork cover. Signed on the movement ‘Ben Woluerstone Londini’. Outer case covered in leather and studded with silver pins. Inner case made of pierced and engraved silver in a flower and foliage design.

Silver pair-cased verge escapement watch by Benjamin Wolverstone

Clockmakers

1670

Male alms box figure from Bethlem Hospital, England, 1671-1681

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1671-1681