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Cabinet - Sources

Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Sundials in antiquity
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Rubens, Apotheosis of James I (1634)
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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Japanese pillar clock
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
Interior of Grote Kerk, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Mongol Empire in 1290
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Saami group
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Drawing of a Bosnian woman
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657