Cabinet - Sources

Gunpowder Warfare
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Astrolabe table clock
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Cushion starfish
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Cover
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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Saami group
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Geber
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Matzah (Kazakhstan)
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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Automata
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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