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Cabinet - Sources

The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Autobiography of Udjahorresne
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Apadana tribute reliefs
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Monstrances
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Mappa Mundi
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A chemise binding
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Russian peasant
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Arcus Bipartitus
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