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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

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

1697

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

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Spiral slide-rule

1663

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

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Earthenware jug

1601-1700

Otter's paw mounted on brooch

1580-1650

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bullet extractor

1601-1700

Frame saw,18 t.p.i. late 17th century.

1650-1700

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1601-1700

Bronze bell shaped mortar with 2 bands of decoration

1592

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Drawing instruments by Charles Whitwell

1593-1610

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689