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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

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

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

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

1697

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Pharmacy storage jar depicting St John the Baptist

1501-1600

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Altitude quadrant

1552

Bow spectacles made of leather and steel

1601-1700