Cabinet - Sources

Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Nova reperta: title page
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Woman and child
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Astronomical Device (3D)
New plants from the New World
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Automata
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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