Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Pharmacy storage jar depicting St John the Baptist

1501-1600

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Canopic jar featuring portrait of Imseti

1400-700 BCE

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Horizontal sundial in bronze

1551

Altitude quadrant

1552

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell

1593-1610

Table clock by Nicholas Vallin

1598-1603

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

1520-1530