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Cabinet - Sources

Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Bishops
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Apadana tribute reliefs
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Drawing of a Bosnian woman
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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A Scientific Revolution
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1709, fol. 44r
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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