Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Tin glazed earthenware albarello made for the Franciscans

1601-1750

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

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

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

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

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Statue of St Mary Magdalene

1601-1750

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

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

1697