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Cabinet - Sources

Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Donum Dei
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Entrance Book (3D)
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The oldest sundials
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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Tetzel as Indulgence Seller
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Tradition
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Timeline of voyages
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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