Cabinet - Sources

Armillae Zodiacales
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Drawing of a Bulgarian man
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Saami bride
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‘Monster House’
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The oldest sundials
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Qaragandy (Kazakhstan)
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Introduction
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1709, fol. 44r
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Battle of Lützen (6 / 16 November 1632)
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Mapping the moon
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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