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Cabinet - Sources

Vitruvius on architecture
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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T19: Silver siglos, “King shooting” Carradice Type 2.
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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Russian women
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The Medieval Worldview
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Itinerary
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Printing in Venice
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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From decoration to illustration
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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