Cabinet - Sources

Sundials in antiquity
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Interior of a Finnish house
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From decoration to illustration
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John Wilkins
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Invitation to Freshmen's Dinner
The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Imperial free cities, 1648
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Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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A view from Tibet
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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Drawing of a lake
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