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Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Tin glazed earthenware albarello made for the Franciscans

1601-1750

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

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

1701-1750

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1636

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Statue of St Mary Magdalene

1601-1750

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

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

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

1697

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ogee moulding plane

1704-1728