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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

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

Compound microscope

1700

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1684

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

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

Grano bronze coin

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

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

1686

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Medal commemorating the return to health of Louis XIV in 1687

1687

Silver medal to commemorate the appearance of a comet

1681

White medal

1694

Large bronze medal commemorating Francisco Redi

1684

Circular bronze medal commemorating Franciscus Redi

1684

Large gilt bronze medal

1684

Bronze medal

1687

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Urban Hiarne, playwr

1682

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700

Screw barrelled microscope, rosewood, gilt brass stand

1680-1690

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Tinder box with flint lock mechanism

circa 1700

Standard ale Quart, bronze, England, 1689

1689

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Arithmetical instrument known as a Rotula

1699

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE