Cabinet - Sources

18. The astrolabe
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Robert Plot
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Mould
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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The Drake Chair (from 1662)
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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Matzah (Kazakhstan)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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13. Sugar
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v