Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

1719

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Sun lead fire mark, no.23055, 1720

1720

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Mezzotint print of oil painting, portrait of Isaac Newton, 1712

1712

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

2000 BCE

Engraving, The Revnd: William Whiston M.A.

1720

Tin medal

1704

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

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

Portrait. Nicholas Saunderson. Mezzotint. 1719

1719

Circular bronze medal

1706

Medal, silver, of the merchant grocers and apothecaries of France

1710

Bronze(?) medal, commemorates A. Doute(?), Dean of

1718

Bronze medal commemorating the Royal Academy of Science

1716

Bronze Louis XV medal commemorating the revival or re-creation of the Academy in 1719

1719

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Bronze token for supplier of drugs in Paris(?), ar

1706

Silver medal to commemorate M.L.B. Doye

1716

Reeded silver token advertising merchants

1710

Copper medal

1716

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1714

Copper medal

1713

Bronze medal

1717

Medal, grocers spicers and apothecaries of Paris

1710

White metal medal to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the University of Leipzig

1709

Circular matt silver medal

1707

Silver medal

1717

Circular silver medal with suspension loop

1707