Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

1601-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Blue maolica albarello

1670-1730

Blue maiolica albarello

1670-1730

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

1650-1665

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Gunter quadrant

1640

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Silver sector signed by Culpeper

1700-1737

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

CAROLVS II.

1667

Bow spectacles made of leather and steel

1601-1700

ELIAS ALLEN

1666

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Morland's calculating machine

1666-1680

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Italian celestial globe, 1636

1636

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Amputation saw with ivory handle

1601-1700

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Albarello drug jar

1600-1700

Storage jar

1714

Pharmacy jar for powdered quinine

1601-1700

Very large bronze mortar

1666

Exchequer standard pint measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

1701-1730

Urinal

1701-1730

Earthenware posset pot, glazed

1650-1700

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Astronomical 'Masterpiece' Clock by Johann Schneider

1625