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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

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

1697

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

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bullet extractor

1601-1700

Frame saw,18 t.p.i. late 17th century.

1650-1700

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1601-1700

Bronze bell shaped mortar with 2 bands of decoration

1592

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell

1593-1610

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689