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Cabinet - Sources

Vitruvius on architecture
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
The New St Peter's Basilica
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Explore the Display Case
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Year Photograph
Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Islam in the 9th Century
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