Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

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

1697

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Nouvelle Description Anatomique

1678

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1684

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Bronze medal by Ferdinand St. Urbain commemorating Marcello Malpighi

1693

Grano bronze coin

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

Medal, copper, of Dean Antonius Le Moine

1676

Medal, copper, of Antonius Le Moine

1678

Bronze medal commemorating the recovery to health of King Louis XIV in 1686

1686

Copper medal

1676

Medal, copper, of Dean Anthony Johannes Morand, of

1676

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Medal commemorating the return to health of Louis XIV in 1687

1687

Pewter (?) medal, possibly copy by P.C.N. commemor

1675

Silver medal, with reeded edge, commemorating A.I.

1676

Silver medal to commemorate the appearance of a comet

1681

White medal

1694

Large bronze medal commemorating Francisco Redi

1684

Circular bronze medal commemorating Franciscus Redi

1684

Large gilt bronze medal

1684

Bronze medal

1687

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Urban Hiarne, playwr

1682

Horn framed reading lens with trefoiled handle

1680-1700