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Cabinet - Sources

Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Quadrans Maximus
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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Portable Sundials
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Anatomical videos
The four terrestrial elements
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Zodiac Man
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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Augsburg cabinet, ca 1650
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5. Mechanical clock
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Mask of a 'Covid Skull'
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Lithograph of Saami men
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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