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Cabinet - Sources

Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Zodiac Man
David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum
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Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Beer glass
Nixon’s the charm
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Behistun relief and inscription
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Young soldier in the Middle East
Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Introduction
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