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Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Set of four sand-glasses

1720

Rushlight and candle holder, iron

circa 1720

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1718

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Bronze bell shaped mortar

1727

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719

Circular bronze medal

1721

Circular silver medal

1718

One grano, bronze coin, associated with Grand Master of the Knights of Malta

1726

Bronze Louis XV medal commemorating the revival or re-creation of the Academy in 1719

1719

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Bronze medal commemorating Louis XV

1728

Silver medal to commemorate M.L.B. Doye

1716

Copper medal

1716

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1722

Silver medal of the Academy of Surgery

1723

Bronze medal to commemorate M.P. Hecquet

1713

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Medal, copper, commemorating A. Doute

1718

medal, copper, commemorating M.Ph.Hecquet as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

1713

Combination microscope set

1715-1725

18th Century Gold Doubloon coin (Portugal)

1728