Cabinet - Sources

Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 254)
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Joan's Short Story
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Дала-шийпон (Узбекистан)
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the university curriculum
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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