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Telescope by John Yarwell.

Optics

1685-1695

wheel cutting machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1668-1672 Probable

Handheld reading lens and case

Optics

1680-1700

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Brass-bound lodestone

Navigation

1675-1700

Wooden acupuncture model

Asian Medicine

1681

Telescope by John Marshall

Optics

1685-1695

Newton's furnace, 1696-1727.

Metallurgy

1696

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

Firefighting

1680

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

.Unattributed

1697

Sterling silver posset pot, London, England, 1698

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1698

Horn framed reading lens with tooled leather case,

Optics

1680-1695

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

Ophthalmology

1674

Cylindrical form of Napier's bones

Mathematics

c. 1700

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

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1671-1681

Leather covered perfume case, Netherlands, 1671-1700

Pharmacy-ware

1671-1700

The description and use of two arithmetick instruments : together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick : as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables ...

Printed Books

1673

Absorbtion hygrometer, wooden strips, circa 1700

Meteorology

1700

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

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1671-1681

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Night clock with painted landscape on dial and pai

Time Measurement

1675-1685

star and sundial, Dutch, 1681

Astronomy

1681

Musschenbroek hand microscope, Netherlands, 1671-1700

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1671-1700

Wooden Cross-staff.

Navigation

1687

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Napier's bones

Mathematics

1671-1700

Memento mori ring, United Kingdom, 1692

Wellcome (general)

1692

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

Surveying

1686

Simple theodolite, Italian, 1676

Surveying

1676

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Engraving of the Oxford Physic Garden, England, 1675

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1675

Serving bottle, oval shape, of German origin, c. 1700

Glass Technology

1700

Laundry tally board, c. 1680.

Mathematics

c. 1680
Gold touchpiece, given to the sick in the ceremony of healing by touch, issued by James II, English, 1685-1688

Gold touchpiece, issued by James II

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1685-1688

Booklet describing Verle's anatomical eye, Italy, 1679

Ophthalmology

1679

Surveying quadrant, 1674.

Surveying

1674
Accessory for manipulating specimens made to accompany the compound microscope designed by Robert Hooke, 1671-1700 and thought to have been made by Christopher Cock, Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, but not signed.

Accessory for Hooke-type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Dispensing pot, England, 1700

Medical Ceramic-ware

1700

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Surgery

1671-1700

A reconstruction of Denis Papin's apparatus of 169

Motive Power

1690 (original)

Reading Glass (1680-1700), thin copper mount with

Optics

1680-1700

Wooden handle only, consisting of a cylinder carve

Orthopaedics

1677

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle, 16

Optics

1680-1700

Haematite weight, Syrian

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1600 BCE

Replica of 'Frog' Clinical thermometer, 1651-1700

Heat

1651-1700 (original)