Cabinet - Sources

Behistun relief and inscription
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Finnish boy
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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Meydancıkkale
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Plate to print: process
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre
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‘Monster House’
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17. Polishing weapons
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Cantino world map (1502)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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The Tradescant family tomb
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Selden End, 1634-7
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