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Cabinet - Sources

‘Monster House’
Image for PRM 1998.183.18.1
Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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The Victoria Cross
Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Head of a fly
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Drawing of pottery vessels
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Russian peasant
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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The astrolabe
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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New plants, new medicines
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