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Cabinet - Sources

Anatomy theatres
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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Ordering plants
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Russian man
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Silver denarius
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Author's inscription
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Agnus Dei
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Apadana audience relief
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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9. Stirrups
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Domenico Gargiulo, Piazza del Mercato
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Beer cellar