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Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Napier's Bones

1690

Silver star-shaped verge watch by David Ramsay

1625

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Compound microscope

1700

Gunter quadrant

1640

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640

Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Drum shaped clock in a gilt-metal case, signed R.S. c.1600

1600

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Small drum-shaped clock from the second quarter of the 16th Century

1525-1550

Drum shaped clock from the third quarter of the 16th Century

1550-1575

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653