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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

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

1697

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1684

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Mezzotint print of oil painting, portrait of Isaac Newton, 1712

1712

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Tin medal

1704

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Bronze medal by Ferdinand St. Urbain commemorating Marcello Malpighi

1693

Circular bronze medal

1706

Medal, silver, of the merchant grocers and apothecaries of France

1710

Grano bronze coin

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

Medal, copper, of Dean Antonius Le Moine

1676

Medal, copper, of Antonius Le Moine

1678

Bronze medal commemorating the recovery to health of King Louis XIV in 1686

1686

Copper medal

1676

Medal, copper, of Dean Anthony Johannes Morand, of

1676

Bronze token for supplier of drugs in Paris(?), ar

1706