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Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Napier's Bones

1690

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

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

Pendulum clock by Pieter Visbach

1660

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Seven almost identical unfinished watch movements

1670

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Octagonal crystal-cased watch by an unknown maker

1610

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

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

"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

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

1697

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Silver watch by James Vautrollier

1630

Watch in a rock crystal case by David Ramsay

1630

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Silver form watch, in the shape of a cockle shell by Richard Masterson, c.1630

1630

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Early London made pendulum clock by Edward East

1601-1700

Oval shaped watch by Henry Archer

1630

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680