Did you know Armillary Spheres inspired the opening titles for TV's Game of Thrones?

Discover this Sphere's gifted owner — Henry Percy, the 'Wizard Earl' — who was a suspect in England's most notorious treason: the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

We developed clocks from star-gazing devices like astrolabes.

And this astrolabe includes the oldest complete geared mechanism in the world.

It's part of a tradition that goes back to the fragments of the Antikythera mechanism created in ancient Greece.

Take a look at this engraved Indian box to see the Earth through the eyes of Hindu cosmology.

What's more, it brings together traditional Hindu ideas (where the universe is like a sideways egg) with the round-Earth theory introduced by Greek thinker Ptolemy.

In 1822 Charles Babbage started work on an automatic mechanical calculator — the Difference Engine.

Never finished, it was an early step towards modern computers.

Discover parts from his first prototype.

Pick up an astrolabe and you hold the universe in your hand.

Using the position of the sun and stars in our moving cosmos, astrolabes tell the time, do maths — even cast horoscopes.

Did Good Queen Bess turn this astrolabe to see into her future?