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Cabinet - Sources

Phoenicia: Sites and Sources
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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Beer glass
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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The King's Gate, Corpus Christi College
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Another azimuth quadrant of brass
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Descartes's correspondence
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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