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Cabinet - Sources

An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Saami woman
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
Conical dial
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Recording stories and memories
Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Field postcard
Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (glass negative)
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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