Cabinet - Sources

Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Cushion starfish
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Timekeeping devices
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Recording stories and memories
A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Queen Elizabeth I Bible (3D)
Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Automata
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Russian fruit seller
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Cantino world map, 1502
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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