Cabinet - Sources

The Astrolabe
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Gnomonics
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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University of Helmstedt
Cushion starfish
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Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Building the Bodleian
Missions to India
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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The ancient papermaking process
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"Tutto Dante"
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Mystics
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Helioscope
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Chinese books before paper
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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