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Cabinet - Sources

Plane dial
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Explanation of the design of Uraniborg with all its premises
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Дала-шийпон (Узбекистан)
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Portable Sundials
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Saami man
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Russian man and woman
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Lake Suolajarvi
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Geber
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Scales Narrative
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Plate to print: carrot
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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The Right to Homestead
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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