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Cabinet - Sources

Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Кукла (Казахстан)
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Menu
‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Missions to China
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 12, 1915
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Porter's note
Conical dial
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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Mappa Mundi
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Astrological tool
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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