Cabinet - Sources

The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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Immortal fame
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Night Encounters
BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Mausoleum of Hadrian
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627, 1651)
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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