Cabinet - Sources

Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Drawing of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Uppsala
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Drawing of mountains
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Philosophers guiding research
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Saxon woman
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Fanny's Scales
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Saami child
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Colophon, fol. 45v
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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