Cabinet - Sources

Fanny's Scales
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Ostrich egg
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Russian man
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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The oldest sundials
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Title page (vol. 1)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Mary Murphy's Album
Sheldonian Ceiling
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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"Tutto Dante"
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
Catacomb Saints
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Great azimuth semicircle
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New plants, new medicines
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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