Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

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

1636

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Horizontal sundial in bronze

1551

Altitude quadrant

1552

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bronze bell shaped mortar with 2 bands of decoration

1592

Albarello vase

1530-1600

Gunter quadrant

1640

Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell

1593-1610

Table clock by Nicholas Vallin

1598-1603

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Vitruvici de Architectura libri decem

1543

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

1588

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

1520-1530

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

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

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Horizontal sundial on base in bronze

1551

Bronze cup-shaped sundial

1601-1630

Drum clock, with detachable alarm, about 1600

circa 1600

Maiolica drug jar for wild celery water

1545-1555

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3