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Date

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

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

1600

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

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

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

1640

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Hexagonal table clock by Johann Schmidtbaur

1700-1725

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625

Ivory folding sundial by Jacob Karner

1630

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

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

1550-1575

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

Statue of St Mary Magdalene

1601-1750

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Drug jar for extract of cinchona bark, Lambeth, London, England, 1710-1740

1710-1740

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

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

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

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

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

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

1697

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630