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Cabinet - Sources

Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Macrocosm and microcosm
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 140)
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Russian man
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1524-1535)
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Design of Stjerneborg
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Comenius
3D scans of rock structures
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Catacomb Saints
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Детские гольфы (Казахстан)
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
The Woman Who Did
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