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Cabinet - Sources
Beer cellar
Drawing of Ukonsaari
De Sphera
Timeline
Houses and totem poles in Masset
Florey Building
Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
Man
Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
Andrea Palladio, Il Redentore Church, Venice (1575-1576)
The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
Calendrical complications
The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
New-world diseases and treatments
Compass in Johannes Stradanus's Nova reperta
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
Author's inscription
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