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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

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

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Storage jar

1714

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

1680

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1684

Model of Newsham's pump piston

1721

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

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

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Claude Perrault

1688-1720

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

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719

Circular bronze medal

1706

Circular bronze medal

1721

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

1710

Bronze(?) medal, commemorates A. Doute(?), Dean of

1718