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Cabinet - Sources

Week 3: Sites and Sources
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Descartes's correspondence
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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'The Female Vagrant' (vol. 1)
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Calendrical complications
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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The not so ‘dark side’
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5. Mechanical clock
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Sundials in antiquity
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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18. The astrolabe
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Перевод Корана Саййиддом Махмуд Тарази (Узбекистан/Индия)
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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The Gutenberg Bible
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Finnish man
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The oldest sundials
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