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Two ivory slides, from Wilson screw barrel microscope

1710-1730

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Microscope (dated 1744)

1744

Carpenter's joint rule

1659

Six flat brass avoirdupois weights, for 2oz, 1oz, 1oz, 1/2oz, 1/4oz and 1/4oz

1714-27

Folding silver ruler, signed 'I. Rowley feci" and wooden shagreen-covered case

1697-1728

English glass celestial globe, 1739

1739

Cuff microscope with drawer in base

1720-1750

Portable microscope by George Lindsay

1743

Culpeper microscope body and stand

1701-1730

Compound monocular microscope with upper part of body tube missing

1701-1750

Pocket sundial

1678-1720

Diagonal Spy Glass

1750

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Spectacles (c.1670-90)

1670-1690

Tablet Azimuth Sundial

1653-1680

Tablet Azimuth Sundial and compass

1651-1700

Universal equatorial sundial

1703-1726

Reading Glass (c.1750)

1750

Pocket Sundial

1670-1721

Drawing Representing Galileo's Proposal for the Application of the Pendulum to the Clock, 1659, copy

1659

Azimuth Sundial

1651-1700

Octagonal ivory Sundial

1653-1680

Octagonal sundial with concentric lunar dial

1676-1733

Ivory hydrometer 5 1/2" long

1700-1730

Pamphlet for pocket microscope by James Mann and James Ayscough

1743

William III & Mary Wool Weight, 7lb, bronze shield shaped

1689-1702

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

1747

Design for a new bridge

1721

Portrait print from engraving of Robert Boyle, 1664

1664

Wool weight, 7lbs, bronze, English, 1690-1695

1690-1695

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

Engraving: plans of London Bridge

1746

Bronze wool-weight

1702-1714

Set of flat troy penny weights in fitted mahogany case

1737

The Creation

1737

English screwbarrel microscope in fishskin covered case

1701-1750

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Temple spectacles

1690-1709

Robert Akenhead, at the Bible and Crown upon the Bridge, Newcastle

1718

Trade card: John Fowler, at the Globe in Sweeting's Alley

1738

Trade card: Mr. Dillon

1722

A table of the Days and Months For Ever

1735-1745

Trade card: John Yarwell

1694

Trade card: Walter Hayes

1680

Trade card: Francis Hauksbee

1725

Trade card: Thomas Haselden

1735

Trade card: James Ayscough. An illustration of a pair of spectacles

1740

Trade card: J. Senex & C. Price

1707