Cabinet - Sources

15. Eyeglasses
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Descartes's correspondence
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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A nurse's photo album
'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Finnish couple
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Железорудные окатыши и индустриальные моногорода (Казахстан)
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Bangle
Pavilion
Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Polish man
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