Saturday 
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Lots and lots of old clocks.
This is a 16th century astrolabe used to locate the position of celestial bodies. The plural of astrolabe is not astrolabia.
An Italian Aristotelian planetarian, circa 1600.
This looks like a much larger version of that other thing, but the sign says it is an armillary sphere. You may have seen similar such things in parks or gardens, but this one is much more complicated.
It is used as a model of things in the sky, with the Earth at the center.
Just think, if Amerigo Vespucci's first name was Todd, we'd be living in the United States of Todd.
I don't know what an organum mathematicum is but here's one to look at.
There's the man himself, Galileo Galilei. See, even art in a science and history museum.
In that glass container are a tooth, thumb and finger of Galileo. No, really.
And in a different jar is the middle finger from his right hand. When Galileo flips you the bird, it lasts.
These old telescopes reminded me of a really catchy song from Hayden Panettiere (the one who plays the cute young singer on Nashville) called "Telescope".
This is a depiction of an incomplete breech birth, but if I was her I would be more concerned that my legs had been chopped off.
This was a neat little thing. That wheel rolls up the ramp. It's hard to tell in the picture, but there are cones on either side of the wheel and the cabinet has an expanding angle up the slope, so as the cones move across the angle, the wheel goes up against gravity. I'm sure there's a more sciency sounding explanation, but that's all I can give.
Lots of electricity machines.
Even bigger telescopes.
And tiny microscopes.
On the left is a 17th century perpetual motion clock and on the right is a scale. How would you like to weigh yourself on this every morning?
An 18th century fan.
I like pocket watches but they just aren't fashionable these days. If I used one people would look at me funny. Okay, more people than usual would look at me funny.

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