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Microscopes and Visualizing Minutia

Tripod Compound Microscope

Tripod Compound Microscope, The Lentz Microscopy and Technology Collection, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

Shagreen Tripod Microscope

Tripod Microscope, The Lentz Microscopy and Technology Collection, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

Robert Hooke's 
Micrographia

Micrographia, or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine

Wunderkammer

Museo Cospiano (Catalogue of the Cospi Museum)

Museo Cospiano (Catalogue of the Cospi Museum), Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

Museum Wormianum (The Museum of Ole Worm)

Museum Wormianum (The Museum of Ole Worm), Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

Maps and Colonialism

Claes Janszoon Visscher's Nova Totius Terrarum map

Claes Janszoon Visscher, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula, Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

H. Terrason's Map of North America

H. Terasson, Map of North America, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

Celestial Navigation

Functional Persian Astrolabe

David astrolabe 3, Babylonian Collection, YPM BC 038013, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Mother Plate From An Imitation Persian Astrolabe

David astrolabe 1, Babylonian Collection, YPM BC 038010, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Octant

Octant, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery

Universal Equinoctial Sundial with Compass

Universal Equinoctial Sundial with Compass, The Lentz Microscopy and Technology Collection, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, on display in "Crafting Worldviews" at the Yale University Art Gallery 

Natural Resources and Medicinal Remedies

Horti Malabarici, Volume 10

Van Rheede, Hendrik. Horti Malabarici. Vol. 10. 1678. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Nicholas Monardes’ “Joyfull Newes Out of The New-Found Worlde”

Monardes, Nicolás. Joyfull Newes Out Of The Newfound Worlde. 1596. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Jose de Acosta's "The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies"

De Acosta, Jose. The Naturall And Morall Historie Of The East And West Indies. Translated by Frances López Morillas. 1590. Sterling Memorial Library 

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Francis Bacon's 
Instauratio Magna

Andreas Vesalius'  De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Vesalius, Andreas. De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septum. 1543. https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi325.htm.

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