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Material
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Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

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

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

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 John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

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

1650-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Gunter quadrant

1640

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

CAROLVS II.

1667

Bow spectacles made of leather and steel

1601-1700

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679