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Cabinet - Sources

The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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11. The Windmill
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Свидетельство о рождении (Казахстан)
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The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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Saami woman
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Желтоксан (Казахстан)
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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A nurse's photo album
BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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The moons of Jupiter
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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Reformers
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