Cabinet - Sources

BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Sundials in antiquity
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Cover
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Drawing of mountains
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Russian bread seller
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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A kiss from your daddy
Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Mary Murphy's Album
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Reformers
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Texture of plants
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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